ENGLISH

History global anglicanism

By Kevin Ward

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521803950, 9780521803953, 9780511261091, 0521008662, 9780521008662
Open Library ID
OL17211036M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2830893 bytes)
Series
Introduction to Religion
Edition
1
Pages
376\376
Topic
Religion
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Anglicanism can be seen as irredeemably English. In this book Kevin Ward questions that assumption. He explores the character of the African, Asian, Oceanic, Caribbean and Latin American churches which are now a majority in the world-wide communion, and shows how they are decisively shaping what it means to be Anglican. While emphasising the importance of colonialism and neo-colonialism for explaining the globalisation of Anglicanism, Ward does not focus predominantly on the Churches of Britain and N. America; nor does he privilege the idea of Anglicanism as an 'expansion of English Christianity'. At a time when Anglicanism faces the danger of dissolution Ward explores the historically deep roots of non-Western forms of Anglicanism, and the importance of the diversity and flexibility which has so far enabled Anglicanism to develop cohesive yet multiform identities around the world.

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