How Religion During Rome Influenced The Development Of Culture

Roman religion is not as easy to identify or describe as one might immediately suppose. Much of the difficulty in defining the religion of the Roman Republic is due to its flexibility and variability, as well as the lack of any clear division between religion, politics, and civil society during this period. It can often be difficult to tell, for example, where Roman religion ends and political ideology begins. Despite these difficulties, it is possible to make certain generalized statements. Religion in the Roman republic was extremely integrated into everyday life, it is variable and individualized, and it played a key role in upholding Roman civil and military power structures. It is also important to remember that Roman religion is not static and underwent a constant process of change over several centuries, often due to political and social concerns.

Religion played a key role in the daily life and social system of Ancient Rome. Religion included the worship of many gods and more gods were often adopted from conquered areas. Because most religions were polytheist at the time, the Romans rarely disallowed a cult from a conquered region to continue. A few cults ran into controversy and opposition from citizens or government, such as the cult of Deus Sol Invictus, and that of Isis. Romans were also not keen on monotheistic religion which explains their separation from the Jews. But above all other religions, the Romans disagreed with, persecuted and were threatened most by Christianity.  The introduction of Christianity to the Roman Empire

During the 17th to 18th century, The Roman Empire had gone through a cultural and religious metamorphous. Throughout this time, the roles of religion in the Islamic, Byzantine and Western European worlds altered the period of 600-750 with their similarities adhering to monotheism for one, and differences in regards to perspectives. These three cultures were all pretty diverse but they also shared some of the same roots and became heritors of the Roman Empire, built on different ideologies. The different ideologies of the Islamic, Byzantine and Western European worlds, consisted of different founders, places, and elements of worship, thus portraying how religion was indeed prominently central to governmental and social structures because of the large impact towards political laws.

In the ancient Roman world, religion played the most important role in everyday life, as well as in matters of the state. The Romans looked to the gods for political stability and for control of the unexplainable and natural phenomenon. The gods were believed to control all aspects of Roman life, and for that reason, a great deal of importance was placed in the appropriate worship of the gods. Women played an extremely influential role in ancient Roman religion. Not only did they participate in religious rituals, but some even held religious positions as Vestal Virgins.

Rome’s religion has impacted America's religion today in a number of ways. One of the primary ways Rome contributed to modern day America was through the spread of Christianity. The decline of the classical empires contributed several ingredients to the spread of what turned out to be the great world religions. Western Europeans tended to look to the missionaries sent by Rome, and to the Holy Father of Rome, for faith and guidance. Rome has changed heavily in the last few centuries.

Rome’s religion was one of its largest cultural advancements. The upcoming of the Catholic church was because of Rome. (4) The emperor Constantine, was greatly responsible for this because before he was emperor, practicing the Catholic faith was illegal. Then when Constantine came into power he made it legal (14), he also was responsible for the creation of the Vatican, the most prominent Catholic capitol (15).

Rome at the beginning was just a small city built on hills, but soon enlarged to one of the largest empires around the world. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean, it was a prime spot for trade and was influenced by surrounding areas such as Greece. In ancient Rome, the city became a Republic and prospered as an Empire expanding to 3.5 million square miles at its height. As ancient Rome continued to grow from the Republic to the Empire between 509 BCE and 476 CE, culturally the acceptance of a new monotheistic religion, Christianity emerged, changing from the previous polytheistic religions and the army changed from a citizen soldier to a standing army. The continuous civil unrest of the poor due to the troubled economy remained throughout Rome’s period.

Religion in Ancient Rome was a very an ethnic religion of the city of Rome that the Romans used to define themselves as a people and as well as the adopted religious practices of peoples brought under Roman rule, and they loved the religions they had. The United States was very religious and holy with a whole bunch of them. But Christianity is the most popular one there is, a whole bunch of people are Catholic, and the next popular one is Jewish. The Roman Army was extremely important in explaining the success of the Romans and the expansion of the Roman Empire.

Throughout the history of Rome, from the monarchy to the late empire, religion had played a great role in it's society and was involved in almost every aspect of the life of the Roman citizen. It was common for each house to have it's own patron god/gods and ,on special occasions, the head of the house would make a sacrifice to the personal gods of the family. Also, great festivals were usually held in honor of certain gods and would include spectacles like chariot races and Gladiatorial fights.

Religion played a significant role in the Roman civilization but, “many people believe that Rome was not a religious place. What they probably mean is that it was not a moral place.” (Burrell, 65) The Romans had innumerable gods that they worshiped which included giving gifts and sacrificing for their gods. Sacrificing animals was common for ancient Roman civilization. The idea of sacrificing came from the people before the Roman Empire was built. Religion primarily used sacrificing as a means of showing appreciation to the gods but later became a way to get things from the gods. The increases in the expansion of Rome lead to an increasing number of sacrifices. Roman sacrifice was done in many different ways and there were numerous

I believe the Romes idea of religion had a large impact on Rome. The reason religion had such a large impact on Rome was because of the amount of problems occurring during the civilization.

The culture in Ancient Rome has a massive impact on our society today, it influenced our sports, language, government, technology, etc.

Ideologies, social patterns, social structures or cultural customs influences an individual’s perception of history. History is used as a building block for upcoming generations, thus making it difficult to accept differences among societies.

Rome integrated religion into its society by way of social interactions and gathering. “A number of the earliest religious festivals of Rome probably date from this period. Inhabitants celebrated the

This essay investigates the role of religion and the importance of Roman society and politics. It will show the origin of Roman Religion, such as the pantheon, origin myths and the effect of foreign influence on Rome. This paper will also go into immense study of how religion affected Roman society through the likes of cult worship and domestic religion. It will also show the importance of politics on Roman religion, such as, the Imperial Cult, Vestal Virgins but more or less will also expose the persecution of Christians that were in opposition to Roman paganism.