The signal outdoor the conservative, white church within the small southern U.S. city broadcasts that the church is a part of the Episcopal Church--of Rwanda. In Anglican Communion in Crisis, Miranda Hassett tells the attention-grabbing tale of ways a brand new alliance among conservative American Episcopalians and African Anglicans is remodeling conflicts among American Episcopalians--especially over homosexuality--into worldwide conflicts in the Anglican church.

within the mid-1990s, conservative American Episcopalians and Anglican leaders from Africa and different components of the Southern Hemisphere started to forge ties against the yank Episcopal Church's perceived liberalism and transforming into toleration of homosexuality. This ended in dozens of yank Episcopal church buildings filing to the authority of African bishops.

in response to extensive learn, interviews with key contributors and observers, and months Hassett spent in a southern U.S. parish of the Episcopal Church of Rwanda and in Anglican groups in Uganda, Anglican Communion in Crisis is the 1st anthropological exam of the coalition among American Episcopalians and African Anglicans. The booklet demanding situations universal views--that the connection among the americans and Africans is only one among comfort or perhaps that the americans acquired the aid of the Africans. as a substitute, Hassett argues that their partnership is a planned and dedicated flow that has tapped the facility and language of globalization as a way to flow either the yankee Episcopal Church and the global Anglican Communion to the right.