From temple to church : destruction and renewal of local cultic topography in late antiquity /

From temple to church : destruction and renewal of local cultic topography in late antiquity /

Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of late antique change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception. Contemporaries were aware of these events' far-reaching symbolic significance and of their immediate impact as demons...

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Other Authors: Hahn, Johannes, 1957-, Emmel, Stephen., Gotter, Ulrich.

Format: eBook

Language: English
German

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 163.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, ISBN: 9789004299672.

Subjects:

30 - 600
Christianity and other religions.
Temples.
Religion > History.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Religion.
History.

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Call Number: BR127 .F76 2008eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Materials /
  • J. Hahn , S.E. Emmel and Ulrich Gotter
  • Chapter One. "From temple to church": Analysing a late antique phenomenon of transformation /
  • Stephen Emmel , Ulrich Gotter and Johannes Hahn
  • Chapter Two. Models and evidence in the study of religion in late roman Egypt /
  • Roger S. Bagnall
  • Chapter Three. Rechtgläubige-Pagane-Häretiker. Tempelzerstörungen in der Kirchengeschichtsschreibung und das Bild der Christlichen Kaiser /
  • Ulrich Gotter
  • Chapter Four. From temple to cell, from gods to demons: pagan temples in the monastic topography of fourth-century Egypt /
  • David Brakke
  • Chapter Five. The christianization of pagan temples in the greek hagiographical texts /
  • Helen Saradi
  • Chapter Six. Iconoclasm and christianization in late antique Egypt: Christian treatments of space and image /
  • David Frankfurter
  • Chapter Seven. Shenoute of Atripe and the christian destruction of temples in Egypt: rhetoric and reality
  • Chapter Eight. Die Zerstörung der Kulte von Philae. Geschichte und Legende am ersten Nilkatarakt /
  • Johannes Hahn
  • Chapter Nine. The conversion of the temple of Aphrodite at Aphrodisias in context /
  • Angelos Chaniotis
  • Chapter Ten. Continuity and change in the cultic topography of late antique Palestine /
  • Doron Bar
  • Chapter Eleven. Modalitäten der Zerstörung und Christianisierung Pharaonischer Tempelanlagen /
  • Peter Grossmann
  • Chapter Twelve. The conversion of the cult statues: the destruction of the Eerapeum 392 a.d. and the transformation of Alexandria into the "Christ-loving" city /
  • Johannes Hahn
  • Index /
  • J. Hahn , S.E. Emmel and Ulrich Gotter
  • Religions in Thegraeco-Roman world /
  • J. Hahn , S.E. Emmel and Ulrich Gotter.