Description: Perhaps, after all, the decolonising agenda isn't extra baggage the church needs to carry on top of everything else. Perhaps, instead, it is the very heart of what the church should be about - disrupting, uncomfortable, and bringing about a kind of 'holy anarchy'. In Holy Anarchy, Graham Adams points to a realm in which all dynamics of domination, not least in the church, are subverted. It cuts across the loyalties and boundaries of religion and fosters the greatest possible solidarity amongst the different. Urgent and timely, the book weaves together themes around Empire, liberation and decolonial practice with an exploration of the nature and scope of church community, interreligious engagement, mission, and worship.
Brief description:
Revd Dr Graham Adams is Tutor in Mission Studies, World Christianity and Religious Diversity at Luther King Centre for Theology and Ministry in Manchester.
Review Quotes: "Graham Adams has gifted us with a brilliant, necessary, and timely volume: refreshingly honest, expansive in outlook, and insightful in navigating theological complexities in helpful and practical ways. Prepare to be challenged by this adventurous theological exploration to rethink and help broaden our interpretative optics to read our diverse 'world' in multiple ways. A volume, singing anarchy (be it holy or not) in a whole new key, is worth sitting with and absorbing, especially the feast of liturgical resources accompanying the work."--Michael N. Jagessar, CWM Mission Secretary for Europe and the Caribbean