Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism : Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England - Martyn Percy

The Crisis of Colonial Anglicanism

Empire, Slavery and Revolt in the Church of England

By: Martyn Percy

Hardcover | 1 May 2025

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $49.99

$44.75

10%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $11.19 with

 or 

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

This book offers a fresh, bold and unsettling truth: the British Empire and Great Britain are primarily English constructions; and the Church of England has presumed to act for and benefit from English enterprise and exploitation, serving as the spiritual arm of the imperial project. English Anglicanism has developed itself as the lead character within its own 'serious fiction'-the main religious player in a drama of Church and Empire. Yet, in collusion with colonialism, it is now a prisoner of its own historical amnesia.

Martyn Percy examines the English interests concealed in appeals to Britishness, and shows how slavery, exploitation, classism and racism played their part in the elitist and hierarchical worldviews propagated by the English to bolster both Empire and Church. Yet, by regarding the rest of the world as lesser, both institutions have slowly degenerated in global standing. Now, 'Britain' and the Church of England are no more than minor national players on the world stage.

Religious, social and political imperialism are founded on the deprecation of others. Yet those peoples who were once looked down upon have fought for equality and independence. Today, the worldwide Anglican Communion faces a new era of moral reckoning.

More in British & Irish History

Henry V : The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King - Dan Jones
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective - Sara Lodge
The Book of Kells : Unlocking the Enigma - Victoria Whitworth

RRP $69.99

$52.75

25%
OFF
Abandoned Women : Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas - Lucy Frost
The Catalpa Rescue - Peter FitzSimons

RRP $36.99

$29.75

20%
OFF
Say Nothing : True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe
Holbein : Renaissance Master - Elizabeth Goldring

RRP $82.95

$60.75

27%
OFF
The Siege : The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama - Ben Macintyre
The Journals of Captain Cook : Penguin Classics - James Cook

RRP $27.99

$23.75

15%
OFF
Jane Austen at Home : A Biography - Lucy Worsley

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Churchill : Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts

RRP $35.00

$28.75

18%
OFF
Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore - W. B. Yeats

RRP $24.99

$22.75

Revenge : Meghan, Harry and the war between the Windsors - Tom Bower
Unruly : A History of England's Kings and Queens - David Mitchell

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF