Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Historiographical Introduction/ Jeremy Morris

The evolution of Anglican theology, 1910-2000/ Mark Chapman

Gender perspectives: women and Anglicanism/ Cordelia Moyse

Sexuality and Anglicanism/ William L. Sachs

The State, nationalism and Anglican identities/ Matthew Grimley

Sociology and Anglicanism in the twentieth century: class, ethnicity, and education/ Martyn Percy

Anglicanism in the era of decolonization/ Sarah Stockwell

Anglicanism and Christian unity in the twentieth century/ Paul Avis

War and peace/ Michael Snape

Global poverty and justice/ Malcolm Brown

The Development of the instruments of communion/ Colin Podmore

The Anglican Communion and Anglicanism/ Ephraim Radner

Anglicanism in Australia and New Zealand/ Ian Breward

North American Anglicanism: competing factions, creative tensions, and the liberal-conservative impasse/ Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook

Anglicanism in Britain and Ireland/ Jeremy Morris

This volume covers the twentieth-century history of Anglicanism in North America, Britain and Ireland, and Australasia. A historiographical introduction sets the scene in terms of currents of changing historical interpretation, highlighting particular perspectives on secularization, decolonization, mission, and the theological identity of Anglicanism which thread through the whole volume.