- This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions; and the Church of England has presumed to act for and benefit from English enterprise and exploitation, serving as the spiritual arm of the imperial project. English Anglicanism has developed itself as the lead character within its own ‘serious fiction’—the main religious player in a drama of Church and Empire. Yet, in collusion with colonialism, it is now a prisoner of its own historical amnesia. Martyn Percy examines the English interests concealed in appeals to Britishness, and shows how slavery, exploitation, classism and racism played their part in the elitist and hierarchical worldviews propagated by the English to bolster both Empire and Church. Yet, by regarding the rest of the world as lesser, both institutions have slowly degenerated in global standing. Now, ‘Britain’ and the Church of England are no more than minor national players on the world stage. Religious, social and political imperialism are founded on the deprecation of others. Yet those peoples who were once looked down upon have fought for equality and independence. Today, the worldwide Anglican Communion faces a new era of moral reckoning.
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The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism
Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Implosion
- 1. The Rise and Fall of a Global Church
- 2. Faith in an Age of Crisis
- 3. Empire, Church and Moral Geography
- 4. Tipping Points
- 5. Slavery, Church and Colonial Racism
- 6. Crowning Glory
- 7. To Be, or Not to Be?
- 8. Anglicanism: A Moral Reckoning
- 9. Communion and Commonwealth
- 10. The English Enigma
- 11. Church, Communion and Classism
- 12. Cultural Weather Forecasts
- 13. Things Fall Apart
- 14. Beyond Control
- 15. Grains of Truth
- Conclusion: The Writing on the Wall
- Coda: Nobody’s Friends and the End of Hierarchy
- Glossary
- Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover
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