Excerpt from Faiths for the Few: A Study of Minority ReligionsWe have also included a discussion of the Philippine Independent Church (aglipayan) since that 'church was founded in American occupied territory and has spent most of its short history under the American ¿ag. American citizens were in¿uential in giving this schism theological and political direction. Today the Aglipayans maintain intercommunion and close ties with the Protestant Epis copal Church from which it received Anglican orders in 1946. Its supreme bishop claims followers including some Filipinos in Hawaii.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.