Roman Religion

The term Roman religion may refer to:

  • Ancient Roman religion
  • religions of the Roman Empire period (see Hellenistic religion)
    • Imperial cult (Ancient Rome)
      • Sol Invictus
    • Mithraism
    • Early Christianity
    • Gnosticism
    • State church of the Roman Empire
  • Roman Catholicism
  • Roman neopaganism

Famous quotes containing the words roman and/or religion:

    “We do not preach great things but we live them.”
    —Marcus Minucius Felix (late 2nd or early 3rd ce, Roman Christian apologist. Octavius, 38. 6, trans. by G.H. Rendell.

    “All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)