Other Voices, Other Worlds

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780898697933

Amazon UK: Other Voices, Other Worlds

Language: English

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Genre(s): Academic writing, Contemporary Christian practice and experience, History, Studies in Religion, and Theology

Topic(s): African Christianity, Discrimination against and hostility towards LGBT+ people, Politics, Same-sex relationships, and Studies in Religion

Especially suitable for: Academics and Anglicans

Leading Anglican writers from around the world challenge the assumption that the communion is split between a liberal ‘north’ and an orthodox ‘south’. Anglican churches worldwide are sharply divided on homosexuality. The dominant stereotype is that of a ‘global south’ unanimously lined up against homosexuality as immoral and sinful, and of a liberal and decadent global north. The differences between the two sides are seen as fundamental and irreconcilable. Nothing is further from the truth: homosexual behaviour exists across the whole Anglican Communion, whether it is openly celebrated or quietly integrated into local churches and cultures. In this extraordinary book, in development for several years, this is exposed as a myth. Christians throughout Africa, Asia, and the developing world – bishops, priests and religious, academics and lay writers – open up dramatic new perspectives on familiar arguments and debates. Topics include biblical interpretation, sexuality and doctrine, local history, sexuality and personhood, the influence of other faiths, issues of colonialism and post-colonialism, homophobia, and the place of homosexual persons in the church. Other Voices, Other Worlds reveals the rich historical and cross-cultural complexity to same-sex relationships, and injects dramatic new perspectives into a debate that has become stale and predictable.