Busine Aude (ed.) Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City (4th - 7th cent.)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 253 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 182).In Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City, historians, archaeologists and historians of religion provide studies of the phenomenon of the Christianization of the Roman Empire within the context of the transformations and eventual decline of the Greco-Roman city. The eleven papers brought together here aim to describe the possible links between religious, but also political, economic and social mutations engendered by Christianity and the evolution of the antique city. Combining a multiplicity of sources and analytical approaches, this book seeks to measure the impact on the city of the progressive abandonment of traditional cults to the advantage of new Christian religious practices.Aude Busine: Introduction: Religious Practices and Christianization of the Late Antique City
Claire Sotinel: Christianisme antique et religion civique en Occident
Catherine Saliou: Les lieux du polythéisme dans l’espace urbain et le paysage mémoriel d’Antioche-sur-l’Oronte, de Libanios à Malalas (IVe-VIe s.)
Ine Jacobs: Holy Goals and Worldly Means. Urban Representation Elements in Church Complexes
Johannes Hahn: Public Rituals of Depaganization in Late Antiquity
Kristine Iara: Lingering Sacredness. The Persistence of Pagan Sacredness in the Forum Romanum in Late Antiquity
Michael Mulryan: A Few Thoughts on the Tituli of Equitius and Sylvester in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Subura in Rome
Bryan Ward-Perkins: Four Bases from Stratonikeia: A (Failed) Attempt to Christianize the Statue Habit
Georgios Deligiannakis: Pagans, Christians and Jews in the Aegean Islands: The Christianization of an Island Landscape
David M. Gwynn: Christian Controversy and the Transformation of Fourth-Century Constantinople
Hervé Inglebert: Conclusions : De la cité rituelle à la communauté sacramentelle