And it's those city gods, in combination with the gods of the Empire, that would structure time ... [In the Roman Empire] you have an enormous set of religious options. It would be like going ...

English Heritage Book of Roman Britain by Martin Millett (Batsford, 1995) - the chapter on religion provides a start on the religions of Roman Britain The Later Roman Empire AD 284-430 by Averil ...

This explains why Roman Catholicism, like an immense insurance company against the risks of after-death, has developed such an enormous religious discipline and practice today. Moreover ...