Frieder Ludwig is Professor of Global Studies and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Ellen Vea Rosnes is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Global Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Joar Haga is Professor of Church History in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Marina Xiaojing Wang is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies (now the Centre of the Study of World Christianity and Religion) at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway (2020–2023).Jairzinho Lopes Pereira is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies (now the Centre of the Study of World Christianity and Religion) at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway (2020–2023).

• 1. Introduction 2. Changing Conditions and Changing Contours: World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War 3. American Protestants and Covert Propaganda in China: Renegotiating Loyalties During World War II 4. Testing Lutheranism in A Time of Revolution: The Divergent Paths of Two Chinese Lutheran Church Leaders 5. Missionary Kids among “Worlds” and Loyalties – The Case of Aadel Brun Tschudi (1909-1980) 6. Rajah Bushanam Manikam, the first Indian Lutheran bishop between Tranquebar and Peking in 1956 7. ‘For Want of a Portuguese Soul’: Loyalty/Disloyalty Narratives in the Context of the Missionary Work of American Methodists in Northern Angola in the Early 1960s 8. Negotiating a Complex Site of Agricultural Education within the Malagasy Lutheran Church at Independence 9. Umphumulo as a Theological Centre in the 1960s and its International Impact 10. “The wheel of history … relentlessly rolling forward:” Perspectives of the German Democratic Republic on Lutheran World Federation Assemblies between 1957 – 1970 11. The End of Missionary Transloyalties in the Ecumenical Movement? The “Humanization of the Gospel”, the “Frankfurt Declaration of 1970” and the long 1960s 12. Negotiating Loyalties and Taking Sides: Gudina Tumsa and Tsehay Tolassa in Ethiopia during a Period of Change.

Frieder Ludwig is Professor of Global Studies and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Ellen Vea Rosnes is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Global Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Joar Haga is Professor of Church History in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Marina Xiaojing Wang is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies (now the Centre of the Study of World Christianity and Religion) at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway (2020–2023).Jairzinho Lopes Pereira is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies (now the Centre of the Study of World Christianity and Religion) at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway (2020–2023).

• 1. Introduction 2. Changing Conditions and Changing Contours: World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War 3. American Protestants and Covert Propaganda in China: Renegotiating Loyalties During World War II 4. Testing Lutheranism in A Time of Revolution: The Divergent Paths of Two Chinese Lutheran Church Leaders 5. Missionary Kids among “Worlds” and Loyalties – The Case of Aadel Brun Tschudi (1909-1980) 6. Rajah Bushanam Manikam, the first Indian Lutheran bishop between Tranquebar and Peking in 1956 7. ‘For Want of a Portuguese Soul’: Loyalty/Disloyalty Narratives in the Context of the Missionary Work of American Methodists in Northern Angola in the Early 1960s 8. Negotiating a Complex Site of Agricultural Education within the Malagasy Lutheran Church at Independence 9. Umphumulo as a Theological Centre in the 1960s and its International Impact 10. “The wheel of history … relentlessly rolling forward:” Perspectives of the German Democratic Republic on Lutheran World Federation Assemblies between 1957 – 1970 11. The End of Missionary Transloyalties in the Ecumenical Movement? The “Humanization of the Gospel”, the “Frankfurt Declaration of 1970” and the long 1960s 12. Negotiating Loyalties and Taking Sides: Gudina Tumsa and Tsehay Tolassa in Ethiopia during a Period of Change.

Frieder Ludwig is Professor of Global Studies and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Ellen Vea Rosnes is Professor of Intercultural Communication and Global Studies in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Joar Haga is Professor of Church History in the Faculty of Theology and Social Sciences at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway.Marina Xiaojing Wang is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies (now the Centre of the Study of World Christianity and Religion) at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway (2020–2023).Jairzinho Lopes Pereira is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre of Mission and Global Studies (now the Centre of the Study of World Christianity and Religion) at VID Specialized University in Stavanger, Norway (2020–2023).

• 1. Introduction 2. Changing Conditions and Changing Contours: World Christianity during the Period of Decolonization and the Cold War 3. American Protestants and Covert Propaganda in China: Renegotiating Loyalties During World War II 4. Testing Lutheranism in A Time of Revolution: The Divergent Paths of Two Chinese Lutheran Church Leaders 5. Missionary Kids among “Worlds” and Loyalties – The Case of Aadel Brun Tschudi (1909-1980) 6. Rajah Bushanam Manikam, the first Indian Lutheran bishop between Tranquebar and Peking in 1956 7. ‘For Want of a Portuguese Soul’: Loyalty/Disloyalty Narratives in the Context of the Missionary Work of American Methodists in Northern Angola in the Early 1960s 8. Negotiating a Complex Site of Agricultural Education within the Malagasy Lutheran Church at Independence 9. Umphumulo as a Theological Centre in the 1960s and its International Impact 10. “The wheel of history … relentlessly rolling forward:” Perspectives of the German Democratic Republic on Lutheran World Federation Assemblies between 1957 – 1970 11. The End of Missionary Transloyalties in the Ecumenical Movement? The “Humanization of the Gospel”, the “Frankfurt Declaration of 1970” and the long 1960s 12. Negotiating Loyalties and Taking Sides: Gudina Tumsa and Tsehay Tolassa in Ethiopia during a Period of Change.