The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion /

This uniquely comprehensive reference work provides a global account of the history, expansion, diversity, and contemporary issues facing the Anglican Communion, the worldwide body that includes all followers of the Anglican faith. An insightful and wide-ranging treatment of this dynamic global fait...

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Group Author: Hawkins, J. Barney (James Barney)
Published: Wiley-Blackwell,
Publisher Address: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Wiley-Blackwell companions to religion
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118320815
Summary: This uniquely comprehensive reference work provides a global account of the history, expansion, diversity, and contemporary issues facing the Anglican Communion, the worldwide body that includes all followers of the Anglican faith. An insightful and wide-ranging treatment of this dynamic global faith, offering unrivalled coverage of its historical development, and the religious and ethical questions affecting the church todayExplores every aspect of this vibrant religious community - from analyzing its instruments of Unity, to its central role in interfaith communication.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781118320860 ( ePub)
1118320867 ( ePub)
9781118320822 (MobiPocket)
1118320824 (MobiPocket)
9781118320839 (Adobe PDF)
1118320832 (Adobe PDF)
9781118320815 (electronic bk.)
1118320816 (electronic bk.)
0470656344 (cloth)
9780470656341 (cloth)
Index Number: BX5005
CLC: B976.3
Contents: Locating the Anglican Communion in the history of Anglicanism /
The history of mission in the Anglican Communion /
The emergence of the Anglican Communion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries /
The instruments of unity and communion in global Anglicanism /
The Archbishops of Canterbury, past and current /
The Book of Common Prayer /
The Lambeth Conferences /
Anglican Consultative Councils /
The Anglican Communion Covenant /
The Anglican Church of Burundi ;
The Church of the Province of Central Africa /
The Province of the Anglican Church of the Congo /
The Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean /
The Anglican Church of Kenya /
The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) /
L'Eglise Episcopale au Rwanda /
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa /
The Episcopal Church of Sudan /
The Anglican Church of Tanzania /
The Church of the Province of Uganda /
The Church of the Province of West Africa /
The Church of Bangladesh /
The Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui /
The Nippon Sei Ko Kai (The Anglican Communion in Japan) /
The Episcopal/Anglican Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East /
The Anglican Church of Korea /
The Church of the Province of Myanmar (Burma) /
The Church of North India (United) /
The Church of Pakistan (United) /
The Episcopal Church in the Philippines /
The Church of the Province of South East Asia /
The Church of South India (United) /
The Church of Ceylon (Extra-Provincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury) /
The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia /
The Anglican Church of Australia /
The Church of the Province of Melanesia ;
The Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea /
The Church of England /
The Church of Ireland /
The Scottish Episcopal Church /
The Church in Wales /
Dioceses extra-provincial to Canterbury (Bermuda, the Lusitanian Church, the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, and Falkland Islands) /
The Anglican Church of Canada /
Iglesia Anglicana de la Región Central de América /
The Anglican Church of Mexico (La Iglesia Anglicana de México) /
The Episcopal Church in the United States of America /
The Church in the Province of the West Indies /
The Episcopal Church of Cuba /
Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil (The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil) /
La Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur (The Anglican Province of the Cono Sur) /
Theology in the Anglican Communion /
The Anglican Communion and ecumenical relations /
Music in the Anglican Communion /
Liturgy in the Anglican Communion /
Preaching in the Anglican Communion /
Women in the Anglican Communion /
Human sexuality in the Anglican Communion /
Theological education in the Anglican Communion /
Interreligious relations in the Anglican Communion /
Globalization of the Anglican Communion /
Missionary work in the Anglican Communion /
Cross-communion organizations /
The spirituality of the Anglican Communion /
Views of colonization across the Anglican Communion /
The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) /