Orthopraxy: The Roman Religion
The Roman religion was a polytheistic one that it had some dynamics in it to make this polytheistic religion continue in a good sound. For this, I would like to give Charles King as a reference that he explains the dynamic of the Roman religion as its mechanism as below:
1. Polymorphism, the idea that gods could have multiple identities with incompatible attributes, 2. Orthopraxy, the focus upon standardized ritual rather than standardized belief, and 3. Pietas, the Roman ideal of reciprocal obligation, which was flexible enough to allow Romans to maintain relationships simultaneously with multiple gods at varying levels personal commitment.
The mechanisms of the Roman religion explained above are the dynamics of the continuity of the Roman
1. Polymorphism, the idea that gods could have multiple identities with incompatible attributes, 2. Orthopraxy, the focus upon standardized ritual rather than standardized belief, and 3. Pietas, the Roman ideal of reciprocal obligation, which was flexible enough to allow Romans to maintain relationships simultaneously with multiple gods at varying levels personal commitment.
The mechanisms of the Roman religion explained above are the dynamics of the continuity of the Roman