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There are two main questions to address before attempting to write an account of Italic religion: how do we define “Italic religion”, and is there sufficient evidence to discuss it? By “religion” we mean systems of belief and the ritual practices that they entail.
The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe surveys the major religious currents of Europe before Christianity - the first continental religion with hegemonic ambition - wiped out most local religions.
Whatever it is, religion seems to be uniquely linked to the human race. It was in Europe and the Middle East that the culture of our immediate ancestors first combined the attributes which are the necessary precursors of religion – burials, plastic art and paintings.
19 Σεπ 2014 · This first volume of a handbook aims at a comprehensive description of a “European history of religions”; however, the chosen phrasing is “religions in Europe” in antiquity.
The closest Ancient Greek comes to the English word “religion” are the noun thrēskeia (“acts of religious worship, ritual, service of gods”) and the verb thrēskeuō (“to perform religious observances”). Basic components of religious worship were the construction and upkeep of divine precincts, statues, altars, and temples, the ...
Religion is often defined by the presence of transcendent beings, the holy, the sacred, and the transcendent. Yet, these definitions are insufficient whe napplied to (prehistoric) material culture. The article discusses theoretical foundations for approaches that take their point of departure from the material record rather than models.
Despite the diversity of the Greek world, which is fully reflected in its approach to things divine, the cult practices and pantheons current among different communities have enough in common to be seen as essentially one system, and were generally understood as such by the Greeks.
