What religion was practiced by the Roman Empire?

Answer 1

Depends on the era. Early in the Roman History they were polytheistic with many gods & goddesses and then converted to Christian.

Which is why much of the Western world is Christian now.

Answer 2

At what points of its existence, and in what part of its geography? The Roman Empire, in different forms, has existed from before the time of Julius Caesar, before Jesus, until the defeat of Kaiser Wilhelm in World War 1 ended the Holy Roman Empire.

For much of its existence, the Roman Empire allows the people in conquered (which was Europe, northern Africa, and parts of Asia) to continue to practice the religion they already had. They just had to add a devoted to Roman and the Emporer as part of their faith.

Following the conversion of Constantine in the early 300's AD, Chrisitianity began to be the most practiced religion in the Empire. But there were even then different branches of that (Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic, Armenian, etc). The Muslim religion would also enter some parts of the Roman Empire after 600 AD. And the Protestant faith after 1500 AD. Some "pagen" religons,such as the Norse would continue to be practiced as late as 1200AD.

So the answer is that the Roman Empire practed many faiths during its 2000 years of existence. Christianity, and in particular Roman Catholic and Orthodox, was one of the most important and influencial of the religions.

Answer 3

Most worshipped Vesta, godess of the hearth.Others worshipped Isis the godess of the sun. The Emperor was also worshipped by a small number of people, as he claimed to be god. Paulian christianity started to catch on around the late 60s. By the time it got to Clement in the 90s it was already changed to something nearer to what we have today. Constantine became a christian, and the roman empire became the holy roman empire (late 280s) The final doctrine and approved version of the bible was presented to the council of Nicaea 325. And modern christianity was born.

Answer 4

The Roman pantheon was worshipped. This was basically the equivalent of MP3 piracy 2000 years ago. The Romans grabbed whatever gods sounded good at the time (Greek, Egyptian, even Christian in the latter days), and jumbled them all together into a big heap. Oh, and former Emperors, quite often.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Religion in ancient Rome combined several different cult practices and embraced more than a single set of beliefs. The Romans originally followed a rural animistic tradition, in which many spirits were each responsible for specific, limited aspects of the cosmos and human activities, such as ploughing. The early Romans referred to these gods as numina. Another aspect of this animistic belief was ancestor, or genius, worship, with each family honouring their own dead by their own rites. Rome had a strong belief in gods. When they took over Greece, they kept the same gods but they gave them different names.

Answer 7

Paganism. They had a pantheon of gods created after people, with their flaws.

The big one was Jupiter ( Zeus for the Greek ) who was unfaithful to his wife, Juno ( Hera for the Greek ) with many mortal women and/or goddesses.

The god of war was mars ( ares for the Greek ) who was a bully and a coward
The goddess of beauty was Venus ( Aphrodite )
The god of fire was Vulcan ( Hephaestus ) who forged Jupiter's beams

The Romans prayed to their gods asking for everything and offering sacrifices of cattle, but no Roman ever thought that a god could love him.

After Constantine declared Christianity the official religion of the empire, the ancient gods began to disappear.
Julian, the apostate tried to revive them, but it was useless.

Shortly after that, the soldiers torn down Jupiter's statue, yelling that with those beams ( that came out of his head ) they wanted to be struck

Answer 8

Hello,

Actually many polytheistic religions as well as Judaism.
The Romans were very multi-cultural and even religions like Mithricism through to the goddess Isis were adopted by here citizens.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 9

They were polytheists before Constantine saw that the populace could be better manipulated if they were forced to believe in just one all powerful creator god. To help people accept this new belief system, be used an affective guilt trip by creating the Jesus myth.

Answer 10

All kinds. Solomon said, there is nothing new under the Sun.

The Worship of Caesar became the standard after Nero went insane.