This five-volume series focuses on the history of Anglicanism in the Americas (North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and related churches). The series is designed to build on the work of previous historians of the regions, revise and revitalize the discipline, and consider recent and emergent scholarship. Chapters will include both chronological and conceptual approaches to interrogate traditional narratives, bring decolonial perspectives and multiple voices, and share the stories of Anglicanism in the Americas. Publication dates for the individual volumes from 2027 to 2030. The series is published by Church Publishing and is intended to be academically sound, with content written in an accessible style. Individual chapters are not to exceed 5000 words, plus endnotes. Potential authors are required to submit a one-page proposal/abstract and a CV or statement of credentials to the series and volume editors.

Editorial Team:

Series Editor: Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, historiographerTEC@gmail.com

Volume 1: Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, historiographerTEC@gmail.com

Volume 2: Jolyon Pruszinski, jolyon.pruszinski@gmail.com

Volume 3: Jennifer C. Snow, jennifercsnowphd@gmail.com.  

Volume 4: Carla E. Roland Guzmán, roland@gts.edu

Volume 5: Allen K. Shin, ashinox@gmail.com.

Vol 1: Origins

This volume will introduce the series and the multiple “origin” stories that constitute Anglicanism in the Americas. No single origin story encompasses all of Anglicanism in the Americas, yet they are critical to shaping history and identity. Considering multiple origin stories allows suppressed histories to emerge and influence dominant narratives. Topics for consideration include Indigenous peoples and encounters with Anglican Christianity; the impact of the Doctrine of Discovery; the Reformation inheritance of Anglicanism; Enslavement and the West African religious influence; Caribbean Anglican origins; English colonialism in the Americas and mission societies (SPG, SPCK, CMS); regional Anglican histories before 1700; the Jamestown story; the Southern colonies; the Philadelphia story; Establishment in Canada; local Anglican life; Regional Anglican pluralism. Submit your proposal/abstract to historiographerTEC@gmail.com.     

Vol. 2: Movement, Contestation, Hybridity & Synthesis

Vol. 2: Movement, Contestation, Hybridity & Synthesis

This volume covers the development of Anglicanism in the Americas and the Episcopal Church from the latter colonial period in what was to become the United States, through the revolutionary period, and into the first generations of the Early Republic (through 1835). As it was an era marked by significant ecclesial, theological, colonial, and racial contestation and controversy, we are particularly seeking chapter proposals that both offer fresh considerations of key shaping issues and demonstrate a historiographical awareness of decolonial approaches. Proposals may address locations in the North American / Caribbean sphere and possible topics may include (but are not limited to) slavery and the Church, high/low church tensions, competing visions of seminary education, developments in the Black Church, women’s roles in forming the Episcopal Church, the Iroquois in Canada post-revolution, indigenous cross-border Anglicanism, or the influence of Bishops William Meade, John Henry Hobart, William White, Philander Chase, or others. Submit your proposal/abstract to Jolyon Pruszinski, jolyon.pruszinski@gmail.com, and copy the Series Editor at historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

Volume 3: Missional Colonialism, Missional Resilience 

This volume focuses on the bulk of the nineteenth century (post-1835) through World War I and examines how Episcopalianism and Anglicanism, developed in the nineteenth-century North American context, shaped and were shaped by migration and colonial expansion. We are seeking papers on any aspect of this interaction, from support for and complicity in internal and external colonialism to providing tools for creative response, dynamic resistance, indigenous leadership, strategic allyship, and reframing across cultural and national boundaries. Paper proposals can be rooted in any context in North, South, Central America, or the Caribbean, including cross-border and indigenous contexts, and may include North American missional expansions beyond geographic boundaries of North America (such as missional or territorial expansion or migration from/to the Pacific, Asia, Africa, South America, etc.). The tentative organization for the volume divides articles into five thematic areas: violence and political conflict; economics; race, gender, and sexuality; science, culture, and theology and liturgy; territorial and missional expansion, hybridity, and cross-cultural interactions. Submit your proposal/abstract to Jennifer C. Snow at jennifercsnowphd@gmail.com and copy the Series Editor at historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

Volume 4: Global Central Anglicanism 

In this volume we invite proposals for chapters that examine Anglican histories and ecclesial formations in Latin America and the Caribbean—especially those that emerged beyond the usual frame of “Anglicanism as British Empire” and that illuminate the “Global Central” vision articulated in the 2005 Panama Declaration: a participatory, diverse, tolerant, and inclusive via media that resists the binary pressures of “Global North” and “Global South.” We welcome historically grounded chapters (chronological, geographic, and/or thematic) that trace trajectories from the nineteenth century through Lambeth 1958 and into contemporary realignments. These could pay attention to early constituencies: merchants, migrants, missionaries, chaplaincies, schools, and hospitals, or could focus on indigenous expressions of Anglicanism; other topics include the struggle over paternalism, dependency, and the pursuit of self-supporting/self-governing/self-propagating/self-interpreting churches (including provincial and extra-provincial arrangements such as Province IX, or Southern Cone, or IARCA, etc); and the development of locally authoritative theological and liturgical expression (including Spanish- and Portuguese-language prayer books, seminaries and theological education initiatives, and ecumenical relationships). Submissions may focus on particular countries or subregions (Mexico and Central America; the Spanish- and non-Spanish-speaking Caribbean; South America), or pursue cross-cutting themes (autonomy, liturgy, mission societies, “the forgotten continent,” GAFCON and twenty-first-century ecclesial politics), so long as they clarify how “Global Central” emerges as a lived Anglican reality in the Americas. Submit your proposal/abstract to Carla E. Roland Guzmán, roland@gts.edu, and copy the Series Editor to historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

 

Volume 5 – Decolonization, Trauma & Resilience

This volume tells the stories of the Episcopal and Anglican Churches in the Americas and the Caribbean from the mid-twentieth century to the present, focusing on how significant events and themes have shaped their evolution. Proposals from diverse contexts are welcome that address decolonization, trauma, and resilience. Tentative themes include Liberation Movements (Civil Rights, Women, Indigenous Peoples, LGBTQi), Liturgical Renewal Movement and the Prayer Book Revision, Schism & Conflicts in regional Anglicanism, Reparations and Residential Schools apologies, Women’s Ordination, Immigration and Migration, Toward Postcolonial Anglicanism in the Americas. Other important themes may be suggested for consideration. Other important themes may be suggested for consideration. Please submit your proposal and abstract to Allen K. Shin at ashinox@gmail.com and historiographerTEC@gmail.com.

For general questions, contact Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, Series Editor, at historiographerTEC@gmail.com.