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:

    “The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, “All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.” And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.”
    —Ernest Renan (1823–1892)