Renewing the Body of Christ: Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA) USA and Transnational Charismatic Anglicanism, 1978–1998

Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA) was formed in the late 1970s as an international organization for the cultivation of charismatic renewal amongst leaderships within the global Anglican Communion. This article explores the ethos and activities of its American national body. It argues that its shor...

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Published in:Journal of American studies 2017-11, Vol.51 (4), p.1243-1266
Main Author: MAIDEN, JOHN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anglican churches
Anglican Communion
Biographies
Charisma
Christianity
Communion
Cultivation
Evangelicalism
Evangelism
International organizations
Morality
Multicultural education
Mutuality
Narrative techniques
Politics
Publishing
Publishing industry
Religious history
Religious missions
Renewal
Transnationalism
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Summary:Sharing of Ministries Abroad (SOMA) was formed in the late 1970s as an international organization for the cultivation of charismatic renewal amongst leaderships within the global Anglican Communion. This article explores the ethos and activities of its American national body. It argues that its short term, cross-cultural missions increasingly displayed mutuality and long-term partnership rather than one-directional American influence, and thus reflected a developing shift in the understanding and practice of global mission in the late twentieth century. The organiztion shaped awareness of the global Church amongst some US Episcopalians and constructed an influential transnational network within charismatic Anglicanism. Furthermore, SOMA's network was one context for the emergence of global North–South conservative solidarity in the politics of the Anglican Communion.
ISSN:0021-8758
1469-5154
DOI:10.1017/S0021875816001444