Not the One nor the Many; A Pragmatic Approach to Religious Behaviour in a Polytheistic Society

Author:

Bendlin Andreas

Abstract

Abstract This chapter examines Rome as a complex polytheistic system. It explains how Rome became a place wherein all divinities come together to receive worship from various ethnic groups and individual civitates. However, Roman authors tend to paint the city as a city of migrants. Latin literature thematises fears of religious infiltrations due to the uncontrolled immigration of innumerable foreign gods and the proliferation of superstitiones. According to Cicero?s political and forensic speeches, the selection of gods depended on varying contexts such as political communication. The chapter then looks into the normalcy of religious pluralism due to the polytheistic system of ancient Rome. It also considers polytheism and monotheism as inventions of early modern religious taxonomy.

Publisher

Oxford University PressOxford

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