Christianization

=== Greece ===
Christianization was slower in Greece than in most other parts of the Roman empire.{{sfn|Gregory|1986|p=235–236}} There are multiple theories of why, but there is no consensus. What is agreed upon is that, for a variety of reasons, Christianization did not take hold in Greece until the fourth and fifth centuries. Christians and pagans maintained a self imposed segregation throughout the period.{{sfn|Gregory|1986|p=233}} Historian and archaeologist [[Timothy E. Gregory]] has written in ''"The Survival of Paganism in Christian Greece: A Critical Essay"''  that J. M. Speiser successfully argued this was the situation throughout the country, and "rarely was there any significant contact, hostile or otherwise" between Christians and pagans in Greece.{{sfn|Gregory|1986|p=233}}

Gregory adds his view that "it is admirably clear that organized paganism survived well into the sixth century throughout the empire and in parts of Greece (at least in the [[Mani Peninsula|Mani]]) until the ninth century or later".{{sfn|Gregory|1986|p=234}}{{sfn|Saradi|2011|pp=261–309}} Pagan ideas and forms persisted most in practices related to healing, death, and the family.{{sfn|Gregory|1986|p=241}}