Jumping Among the Temples. Snapshots of an Early Christian. Critique of Polytheism’s « Spatial Fix »

Abstract

The paper aims to critically resort to the materialist-geographical concept of the «spatial fix » for deepening understanding of the functioning of ancient Mediterranean polytheism as urban religion. After expounding its key notion, it focuses on a few selected samples of the early Christian critique of the polytheist production of a religious built environment in order to foreground and reassess the spatialized character of their arguments. Lastly, it touches on the major changes which occurred in this polemical discourse at the time of the increasing materialization of Christian religious space.