Anglican Communion in Crisis

How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism

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ID19886320
AuthorsMiranda K Hassett (corresponding author), Miranda Hassett (corresponding author)
Year2009
Pages320
Publication date2009-12-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueAnglican Communion in Crisis (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1515/9781400827718
OpenAlexW590068131
Open LibraryOL29010742M
ISBN9781400827718
LanguageEN
Citations received18

The sign outside the conservative, white church in the small southern U.S. town announces that the church is part of the Episcopal Church--of Rwanda. In Anglican Communion in Crisis , Miranda Hassett tells the fascinating story of how a new alliance between conservative American Episcopalians and African Anglicans is transforming conflicts between American Episcopalians--especially over homosexuality--into global conflicts within the Anglican church. In the mid-1990s, conservative American Episcopalians and Anglican leaders from Africa and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere began to forge ties in opposition to the American Episcopal Church's perceived liberalism and growing toleration of homosexuality. This resulted in dozens of American Episcopal churches submitting to the authority of African bishops. Based on wide research, interviews with key participants and observers, and months Hassett spent in a southern U.S. parish of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda and in Anglican communities in Uganda, Anglican Communion in Crisis is the first anthropological examination of the coalition between American Episcopalians and African Anglicans. The book challenges common views--that the relationship between the Americans and Africans is merely one of convenience or even that the Americans bought the support of the Africans. Instead, Hassett argues that their partnership is a deliberate and committed movement that has tapped the power and language of globalization in an effort to move both the American Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion to the right

Political science · Christian Theology and Mission · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious Freedom and Discrimination · Anglican communion

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