Contemporary Issues in the Worldwide Anglican Communion: Powers and Pieties (Ashgate Contemporary Ecclesiology)

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.

Dr Abby Day is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Religious Studies, University of Kent and Reader in Race, Faith and Culture, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is Chair of the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Religion study group, and her most recent books are (forthcoming) Modernities, Memory, Mutations: Grace Davie and the study of religion (edited with Mia Lövheim); Believing in Belonging: Belief and Social Identity in the Modern World; Social Identities between the Sacred and Secular, Day, A., Vincett, G. and Cotter, C.R, (Ashgate 2013) and Religion and the Individual (ed.), (Ashgate 2008).