Work Packages
WP 1: Selection of Key Sources and Discussion of Concept
A first online workshop was conducted between November 10. – 12.2020 (see https://www.vid.no/nyheter/digitalt-seminar-setter-fokus-pa-translojalitet/).
A dropbox „Transloyalties“ was created and 32 source documents were shared (South Africa – 3, China – 6, Norway – 2, Congo-Angola -1, Madagascar – 6, Germany – 6, LWF – 8). The documents were introduced and analyzed by members of the core group (for Madagascar: Ellen Vea Rosnes, Roland Rakotovao and Jaofena Mihari, for South Africa: Kalpana Hiralal and Phuti Mogase, for Norway: Joar Haga and Frieder Ludwig, for Germany: Katharina Kunter, for China: Marina Xiaojing Wang and Hong Shen).
The programme also included contributions on the archives in Stavanger (Silje Dragsund Aase) and Geneva (Beatrice Bengtsson) as well as a brief report on the recent Berlin conference on Nationalism and Internationalism in the Young Ecumenical Movement (Judith Becker see https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachrichten/oktober-2020/nr-20106-1 ) and a welcoming message by Vid‘ s Prorektor for forskning, Gunhild Odden.
The concept of transloyalty was introduced by Frieder Ludwig, applied to the various documents and intensively discussed.
WP 2: First Book Project: Transloyalties
During the period January – September 2021 more archival material will be collected and analyzed.
A first book publication will be prepared: Members of the Stavanger team, the core group, the cooperation partners, the international advisory board and others will be invited to contribute to a volume on Connected Histories – Contested Values: Loyalties, Competing Loyalties and Transloyalties in African, Asian and European Protestantism, ca. 1920 – 1970 and will be asked to send abstracts until the end of February and draft papers until June. This volume will help to clarify and establish key concepts. A first draft of the introduction has been already written by Frieder Ludwig, and will be revised in an interactive process with the contributors. Negotiations with possible publishers will start early in 2021.
The contributions will be discussed at the second CHCV workshop in Utstein in August or September 2021. Then they should be revised by the authors until the end of October, and the manuscript should be finalized until December. All papers will be peer-reviewed, and the aim is to have a good balance between scholars from the regions represented in the project. All papers will relate to key concepts such as transloyalties and connected histories.
The workshop will take place at Utstein Kloster Hotell
WP 3: Analyzing Processes of Transloyalties and Intercultural Interactions
In the period from October 2021 to June 2022, more Archival material will be collected and analyzed, now with a focus on connected histories and contested values. Oral history material will be added.
The two postdocs will organize international workshops in their areas of specialization with a view to work on publications and of follow-up research proposals. In the same period, the project leaders will start to work on the monograph on World Lutheranism, 1920 – 1970. The focus will be on the polycentric dimensions especially in South Africa, Madagascar, Norway, Germany and China. How were Lutheran key terminologies such as the Freedom of a Christian, Two Kingdoms and Justification by Grace translated and used in various contexts? What was the meaning of key Lutheran terms such as Sin, Forgiveness, Partnership, Healing and Literacy?
The book will examine how Lutherans related to processes of decolonization and constructs of modernity and analyses the vast spectrum of positions between adaption, self-assertion, emancipation and resistance. The focus on loyalties, competing loyalties and indeed transloyalties will help to throw new light on these processes.
WP 4: Finalizing and Dissemination of Results
In the period from July 2021 to June 2022, the monograph will be finalized for publication and project proposals for externally funded projects will be submitted. The Conference in Stavanger will highlight the results and illustrate them also with photos which indicate interactions and processes of transloyalties in ceremonies and celebrations, everyday life, sports, smoking and art.
The conference will be organised by Ellen Vea Rosnes and Joar Haga. Some aspects of the project will also be presented in 2025 during the 900 years anniversary.