Roman Religion

The study of the great civilizations is a fundamental part of the history of humanity, even more
from a religious perspective. They evolved their primary doctrines, establishing as a fundamental
basis for great organizations and idiosyncrasies worldwide from the spirituality and
understanding of the human being. Establishing an understanding of Roman governance from
religious activities with the term "Roman religion" allows us to know its evolution to what is
now known as Christianity, which in its beginnings was not a compressive revolution of human
life.

Cruccas, Emiliano. NVMINA MAGNA: Roma y el culto a los grandes dioses de Samotracia.
Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing: Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, 2019.

Starting from the influences and similarities of the Greek religion in Rome after the conquest of
the Eastern world, this work presents the relationships with the most representative deities
belonging to the territories conquered by Rome. The author, Dr. Cruccas, has 18 years of
academic experience in Classical Archeology and Roman Religion with more than 40 scientific
publications on the subject. The publisher in charge was Archaeopress, dedicated since 1997 to
the publication of academic works on world archeology based in Oxford. Being published only
one year away, it shows readers the contemporary vision of the author from the cultural
complexity of the religious cults of Rome, mainly produced by the political conditions of the
expansion, detailing the polysemy with Greek culture and the complex coordination of beliefs. of
the people and the policies of Rome.

Cochrane, Charles N. Christianity and Classical Culture: A Study of Thought and Action from
Augustus to Augustine. New York: Oxford University Press. 1940.

The cultural and religious evolution of Rome has focused its movements on the political factor
on the governability and subjugation of other cities in the search for supreme power, presenting
memorable events in the history of humanity with the beginnings of Christianity and its
revolution in favor of understanding the human being. This work is considered one of the largest
and most complete in relation to the impact of Christianity on the Graeco-Roman culture. This
work was published in 1940 by the University of Oxford, a world-renowned institution, its
author Cochrane Charles, Canadian philosopher and historian, died in 1945, he belonged to
University Coll U Toronto as a history professor. Being a reference to classical culture and
idiosyncrasy, it allows the reader to analyze the transition from Pagan to Christian religion, from
Roman philosophy to the philosophy of the Trinity; being a starting point to understand the ideas
of authors of the last century and to be compared with other contemporaries.

Beard, Mary; North, John; and Price, Simon. Religions of Rome. Cambridge : Cambridge
University Press 1998.

From a broader point of view, this book, divided into 8 chapters, shows more than a millennium
of the different religions developed in Rome, and brings together religious life from the
beginnings of the city to the periods of the Christian emperors; showing the multiplicity of
beliefs, customs and rites of the different social classes that made up the Roman Empire. This
work entitled “A History” was published in 1998 by the prestigious UK publisher Cambridge
University Press, with periodic reprints until 2004. The authors are members of the University of
Cambridge, University College London and the University of Oxford respectively, these authors
have academics merits for their different individual works as well as their role as tutor and
researcher in their different houses of study with the exception of Prince Simon, who passed
away in 2011. For readers and researchers interested in the rites, traditions and, customs of
Roman families in the times from the founding of the city to the adoption of Christianity as a
form of government, it presents a good source of information with visual support of geographical
and artistic elements with a religious topic for the more than 1000 years of religion in Rome.

Csaba, Szabó. ROMAN RELIGION-RELIGIONS OF ROME: Interview with professor Jörg

Rüpke. Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica XX, 2014, 383-390.

Within the personal and academic interests of professors with a recognized professional career in
the field of History, Csaba writes the interview with Professor Rüpke about his lines of research
and the inspiration he takes from his selection; detailing his beginnings in religious studies and
the guidance of his mentor who introduced him to Roman religion. In the same way, he details
the strong influence of religion where the role of the priest was secondary, unlike other musings,
adding in a summarized way the contributions of his great publications. Ph.D Csaba carries out
academic studies in History and Ancient History obtaining his Ph.D. degree at the University of
Pécs, gathering more than 28 disclosures in conferences and scientific journals since 2008. This
article was published in Studia Antigua Et Archaeologica magazine, established in 1983,
published by the University “Al. I. Cuza ”de Iasi, and also, indexed in databases such as Scopus
and DOAJ. In the European continent, Ph.D. Jörg Rüpke is a renowned erudite for his studies in
religion; Due to his academic experience, he is a reference for researchers and Ph.D. who wish to
venture into the History of religion, presenting interesting topics from his experience in the crisis
of methods, rituals, parties, calendars and the different instruments that manifest religiosity in
ancient Rome.

Hunt, Ailsa. Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion. Translated by Jörg Rüpke. Translated
by David M. B. Richardson. (Book reviews). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Ph.D. Jörg Rüpke, recognized professor and European researcher of German origin, is an
academic reference in the Roman Religion research line, so his books are translated into different
languages, referring to this review article, the author presents a summary of the book " Pantheon:
A New History of Roman Religion. Translated by Jörg Rüpke. Translated by David M. B.
Richardson ”, in which he emphasizes that it is not for everyone and in which Rüpke creates a
rich, elegant and stimulating narrative based on archaeological data, and based on them he makes
a reasonable and logical chronological; where it is a reference for numerous studies in the
History of Western religion. The author Ph.D Hunt has 16 years of academic experience in
Classics and Ancient History in addition to being a professor and researcher at the University of
Birminham, in the specialty of Roman Religion. The publication of this review article was the
responsibility of the Oxford University Press on behalf of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-
State Studies, of recognized and prestigious world long history. This review article allows
readers to acknowledge in short pages the literary and scientific merits of the Ph.D. Rüpke.

Bondioli, Nelson de Paiva. “Roman Religion in the Time of Augustus.” Numen 64 (2017): 49-
63.

From the viewpoint of the complex formation of religiosity in Rome, this article investigates and
discusses the difference between Roman Religion, Religions of Rome, and the way in which it
has been schematized around politics and public worship, revealing the meaning of Roman
religion in the term "polis-religion" in its Greek structure and in the middle for religious
activities, and the Augustan reforms arriving with the change of the political and religious
system that was maintained in Rome. According to the reliability of the source, the author
Bondioli Nelson, Postdoctoral fellow in History at the Federal University of Espirito Santo, also
has a book, published in 2011, with the theme of human religion. The publication of the article
by Brill Academic Publishers founded in 1683, with different specialized magazines in the areas
of science, history and, culture. The author's dissertation shows the characteristics of the term
Roman religion, as well as the pragmatism behind his activities; and it is available to those
interested readers, with an argued and summarized version of the political, ideological and moral
changes of the Augustan reform.