North to South: A Reappraisal of Anglican Communion Membership Figures
In recent decades Anglicans have developed a largely unquestioned and unchallenged narrative of global growth and decline. This narrative tells a story of Anglicanism's success being largely due to growth in developing, postcolonial nations which, according to the narrators, is ongoing and unst...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Journal of Anglican studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 71-95 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDE Anglican Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Anglican Communion membership
B Anglican Church of Kenya B Anglican Communion B Church Growth B Church of Nigeria B Global South |
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| Summary: | In recent decades Anglicans have developed a largely unquestioned and unchallenged narrative of global growth and decline. This narrative tells a story of Anglicanism's success being largely due to growth in developing, postcolonial nations which, according to the narrators, is ongoing and unstoppable. At the same time, first-world, mostly postmodern nations have seen a steep decline in church membership and attendance. Numeric growth and strength have been used to define ecclesial identity and to legitimate understandings of Anglican orthodoxy'. This article offers an up-to-date reappraisal of Anglican Communion membership and, in that process, challenges many of the premises of such a narrative. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5278 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Anglican studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S1740355315000212 |