{"product_id":"9781400827718","title":"Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eAnglican Communion in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eAnglican Communion in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121437425904,"sku":"9781400827718","price":67.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400827718_p0.jpg?v=1763712158","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400827718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}