sometimes scholars throw around the term 'civil/c religion' when talking about this because the differences could be so substantial and ingrained in communities as small as the specific city-states. its almost incorrect to claim there's such a thing as 'hellenic religion' more than a collective attitude between certain groups of people in the mediterrean
the big example is Rome, which (often rather ignored by mainstream discourse) was a deeply religious city-and-state whose very administration & political traditions were wrapped in their religious activity. civic-religion in that it was specific to Rome the City, but to be pedantic its later civil-religion when it starts to concern much more territory than the city itself.
speaking of abrahamic religion there are a few parallels in the transition of civil-religious tradition to monotheism, particularly in Rome---but the theological nature of the abrahamic traditions differs quite substantially because they're not based on oral traditions but a written set of texts & the discourse around/interpretation thereof.
and also just because hellenistic 'polytheism' could act inclusively doesn't preclude its religions and followers from being very intolerant. For every Zeus-Ammon & Mithras you get an Elagabal, a Maccabees, a Carthage (i.e. times hellenistic folk did religious intolerance)
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sometimes scholars throw around the term 'civil/c religion' when talking about this because the differences could be so substantial and ingrained in communities as small as the specific city-states. its almost incorrect to claim there's such a thing as 'hellenic religion' more than a collective attitude between certain groups of people in the mediterrean
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the big example is Rome, which (often rather ignored by mainstream discourse) was a deeply religious city-and-state whose very administration & political traditions were wrapped in their religious activity. civic-religion in that it was specific to Rome the City, but to be pedantic its later civil-religion when it starts to concern much more territory than the city itself.
speaking of abrahamic religion there are a few parallels in the transition of civil-religious tradition to monotheism, particularly in Rome---but the theological nature of the abrahamic traditions differs quite substantially because they're not based on oral traditions but a written set of texts & the discourse around/interpretation thereof.
and also just because hellenistic 'polytheism' could act inclusively doesn't preclude its religions and followers from being very intolerant. For every Zeus-Ammon & Mithras you get an Elagabal, a Maccabees, a Carthage (i.e. times hellenistic folk did religious intolerance)
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