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)

    “A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)