The Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom
Subtitle: the Crisis Over the Eastern Church in the Era of the Crimean War
By: Jack Fairey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137508454
Subjects: Politics and government; Crimean War, 1853-1856; RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox; HISTORY / Europe / General; HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century; Eastern question; Christianity; RELIGION / Theology
Description: "During the mid-19th century, the Orthodox Christians of the Middle East found themselves at the centre of a bitter struggle for control between five empires - Russia, Britain, France, Austria, and the Ottoman government itself. This book traces the history of the international crisis over Orthodox Christendom from its origins in the 1820s-1830s to its partial resolution in the 1860s. It explains how and why the temporal powers exercised by the Orthodox Church led to an escalating series of diplomatic confrontations that reached their acme in the 1850s with the outbreak of the Crimean War and a concerted campaign by the Great Powers to secularize and laicize the non-Muslim communities of the Ottoman Empire"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Table of Contents; title: 1. Reason in Exile: The War for the Eastern Church; title: 2. A Patriarch's Progress: The Great Church under Grigrios; title: 3. Ponsonby vs the Patriarch: Orthodoxy & European Diplomacy; title: 4. 'The Great Game of Improvements': Resid Pasa & Reform; title: 5. A Cossack Takes the Cross: Prince Menshikov's Crusade; title: 6. Ambassadors of Peace: Recasting Ottoman Christendom; title: 7. 'A Complete Revolution': The Great Church & the Great Powers.