Anglican disputes over sexuality in the intersection of global power relations

This chapter situates recent conflicts in the Anglican Communion, where sexuality is a “presenting symptom”, in relation to global power differentials. In interviews, senior church leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for the conflict, often making reference to colonialism and the post-colonial context, but they reference these inequalities in varied ways and to different ends. In a global church, disputes are irreducibly complex and sometimes contradictory, imbricated in intersections of power and domination, both in the church and wider society. Intersectionality provides a useful heuristic for ensuring that analyses are not reduced to any single axis of contention and disagreement.