Kristenisasi situs yang telah menjadi pagan terjadi sebagai akibat dari perpindahan agama pada awal zaman Kristen, serta bagian penting dari strategi Interpretatio Christiana ("reinterpretasi Kristen") pada masa penyebaran Kristen terhadap bangsa-bangsa pagan.^[1] Lanskapnya sendiri dikristenisasi, dimana fitur-fitur penting dirededikasikan kepada orang-orang kudus Kristen, terkadang secara langsung, seperti saat pulau Oglasa di Laut Tyrrhenian dikristenkan menjadi Montecristo.

Catatan

^ This is not solely a feature of Christianity, needless to say; the phenomenon was discussed in broader terms by F.W. Hasluck, Christianity and Islam under the Sultans (Oxford) 1929.

Referensi

Curran, John 2000. Pagan City and Christian Capital. (Oxford) ISBN 0-19-815278-7. Reviewed by Fred S. Kleiner in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 20
Kaplan, Steven 1984 Monastic Holy Man and the Christianization of Early Solomonic Ethiopia (in series Studien zur Kulturkunde) ISBN 3-515-03934-1
Kerenyi, Karl, Dionysus: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life 1976.
MacMullen, Ramsay, Christianizing the Roman Empire, AD 100 – 400 Yale University Press (paperback, 1986 ISBN 0-300-03642-6)
Syndicus, Eduard; Early Christian Art; Burns & Oates, London, 1962
Trombley, Frank R., 1995. Hellenic Religion and Christianization c. 370-529 (in series Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (Brill) ISBN 90-04-09691-4
Vesteinsson, Orri, 2000. The Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000-1300 (Oxford:Oxford University Press) ISBN 0-19-820799-9
Williams, Mark F., The making of Christian communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Anthem Press, 2005, ISBN 1-898855-77-3, ISBN 978-1-898855-77-4, google books

Pranala luar

Jorge Quiroga and Monica R. Lovelle, "Ciudades atlánticas en transición: La “ciudad” tardo-antigua y alto-medieval en el noroeste de la Península Ibérica (s.V-XI)" from Archeologia Medievale vol xxvii (1999), pp 257–268 Christianizing Late Antique Roman sites from the 6th century onwards.
The Fountain of Cassiodorus at the Coscia di Stalettì Diarsipkan 2015-07-09 di Wayback Machine. The site known as "Fountain of Cassiodorus" in the area of the Vivarium monastery witnesses the Christianization of a pagan shrine dedicated to silvan gods, whose cult is attested by Cassiodorus in Institutiones' 1.32.2.'
Sceptical account of the remains under St Peter's Basilica Diarsipkan 2008-12-20 di Wayback Machine.
Catholic apologist account of the remains under St Peter's Basilica