Sacred Space and Anglo-Turkish Relations : The Politics of British Churches, Cemeteries and War Graves in Turkey, 1825 to 1976

Fisher, John

I.B. Tauris（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 376 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780755654628
• DDC分類 956.10154

Full Description

This work investigates how various sacred spaces in Ottoman and Republican Turkey interfaced with British foreign policy. It considers how these spaces impacted upon British prestige in the context of its dealings with Turkey chiefly, as well as other Great Powers. The period covered is from the demise of the Levant Company in 1825, to the deconsecration of the Crimean Memorial Church in Istanbul, in 1976. Other sacred spaces discussed include the British Embassy Chapel, the Crimean War cemeteries, various British churches and cemeteries in Izmir, the Gallipoli cemeteries, connected with the campaign of 1915, and the Phanar, the Ecumenical Patriarch's home in Istanbul.

The book considers how, and to what extent, the Foreign Office in London, and its staff in Turkey, intervened to secure those spaces, and why the politics of the Patriarchate intruded into the Foreign Office's geo-strategic considerations. It considers the limits of that support, and how dealings over sacred space intermeshed generally with British policy towards Turkey. It further explores the motives, not just of diplomats and consuls, who were instrumental in establishing or safeguarding those spaces, but also the aims of other organisations and of expatriate Britons, who were similarly involved. It also considers instances where such support became attenuated or was withdrawn. The book is unique in illuminating, in a broad fashion, the role of sacred space in the context of Anglo-Turkish relations, and British power projection in the Near East.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Illustrations

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Themes
Chapter 2: Contexts

Part 2 The Evolution of the Istanbul Chaplaincy

Chapter 3: British Protestant Life in Constantinople
Chapter 4: The clerical and diplomatic spheres
Chapter 5: Cases of difficulty, danger, and outrage
Chapter 6: Christ Church, the Crimean Memorial Church and All Saints, Moda
Chapter 7: St Helena's, the Embassy Chapel
Chapter 8: The Combined Chaplaincy

Part 3 The Politics of the Crimean War cemeteries in Turkey

Chapter 9: 'A national obligation'
Chapter 10: A matter of prestige

Part 4 The Politics of Commemoration and Worship at Smyrna

Chapter 11: 'Money, time and trouble'
Chapter 12: Acts of desecration

Part 5 The Politics of the British Imperial War Cemeteries at the Dardanelles

Chapter 13: Haggling over the dead
Chapter 14: God's Acres
Chapter 15: Further Challenges on Land and at Sea

Part 6 The Foreign Office and the Politics of the Phanar

Chapter 16: The Fruits of Schism
Chapter 17: Treading on egg-shells
Chapter 18: Harassed by pinpricks

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index