HIST 1001 Chapter : Hist 2 27 13
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3 religious options civil religions-adoption of traditional panteon of gods/ goddesses. Roman imperial religion-augustus-tribune(sacred) should worship the living empire as a god. Some religions were male worship or female worship. Vesta-goddess of the herp(cooking gathering); vestal virgins; to corrute a vestal virgin was a very bad thing; were seen as good wives; after age of 30 they could leave and get married. The civil religions don"t really transfer; they are tied to cities;you could pick and choose religion. Mithras(originally a persian deity); universal, personal, involved some sort of secret initiation which made them very popular; mithras was pop. Christianity begins out of judea and spreads bc it is in the roman empire bc there is a common language-greek; the earliest spread of the christian world emerge in. Judae into jerusalem and as the church spreads they try push apostolic succession(connection to one of the 12 apostles)
