Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion
Subtitle: Powers and Pieties
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781472444134
Subjects: Anglican communion
Description: Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion offers unique perspectives on an organisation undergoing significant and rapid change with important religious and wider sociological consequences. The book explores what the academic research community, Anglican clergy and laypeople are suggesting are critical issues facing the Anglican communion as power and authority relations shift, including: gender roles, changing families, challenges of an aging population, demands and opportunities generated by young people, mobility and mutations of worship communities; contested conformities to policies surrounding sexual orientation, impact of social class and income differences, variable patterns of congregational growth and decline, and global power and growth shifts from north to south.