From temple to church
Subtitle: destruction and renewal of local cultic topography in late antiquity
By: edited by Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel & Ulrich Gotter.
Contributors: Hahn, Johannes, 1957-; Emmel, Stephen.; Gotter, Ulrich.
Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world -- v. 163
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9789004131415
Subjects: Christianity and other religions; Temples; Religion -- History; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Notes: Includes index.

English and German.
Table of contents: title: "From temple to church" : analysing a late antique phenomenon of transformation / Stephen Emmel, Ulrich Gotter & Johannes Hahn; title: Models and evidence in the study of religion in late Roman Egypt / Roger S. Bagnall; title: Rechtglaubige-pagane-haretiker : tempelzerstorungen in der kirchengeschichtsschreibung und das bild der christlichen kaiser / Ulrich Gotter; title: From temple to cell, from gods to demons : pagan temples in the monastic topography of fourth-century Egypt / David Brakke; title: The christianization of pagan temples in the Greek hagiographical texts / Helen Saradi; title: Iconoclasm and christianization in late antique Egypt : Christian treatments of space and image / David Frankfurter; title: Shenoute of atripe and the Christian destruction of temples in Egypt : rhetoric and reality / Stephen Emmel; title: Die zerstorung der kulte von philae : geschichte und legende am ersten nilkatarakt  / Johannes Hahn; title: The conversion of the temple of Aphrodite at aphrodisias in context / Angelos Chaniotis; title: Continuity and change in the cultic topography of late antique Palestine / Doron Bar; title: Modalitaten der zerstorung und christianisierung pharaonischer tempelanlagen / Peter Grossmann; title: The conversion of the cult statues : the destruction of the serapeum 392 a.d. and the transformation of Alexandria into the "Christ-loving" city / Johannes Hahn.