Anglicanism in the Age of Colonialism: How Did the British Church Become Global?

Religious history is full of examples where faith has crossed national borders to become a global phenomenon. Anglicanism is one such tradition. Emerging in the 16th century as a result of the political and religious break between England and Rome, the Anglican Church not only consolidated its presence within the country but gradually spread across the globe. A particularly powerful impulse for this expansion came during the era of British colonialism, when the flag of the British Empire flew ov