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Tourism & Travel | | Spanish term or phrase: cultos oficiales | Novedades políticas, pues el urbanismo emeritense cuenta con espacios forenses en los que se insertaban la curia o senado, basílicas y templos colosales dedicados a los cultos oficiales del Imperio.
This is about Merida, Spain. Thanks in advance. |
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| | official cults | Explanation:
"Cults" is the right word here. You can say "religious cults", but it's a tautology really. They're not actually full-scale religions.
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See Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire
http://books.google.es/books?id=Q6sSsAR0ZO8C&pg=PA133&lpg=PA...
Geoffrey W. Bromiley, The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, p. 116:
"Many of the unsophisticated sincerely followed the old established worship of the official cults or quietly continued to venerate the more personal divinities of hearth and home."
http://books.google.es/books?id=6OJvO2jMCr8C&pg=PA116&lpg=PA...
"Official cults were state funded as a "matter of public interest" (res publica). Non-official but lawful cults were funded by private individuals for the benefit of their own communities."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome
"By the end of the fourth century A.D., the official cults of Cybele, Isis, and Mithras, emblems of Roman paganism, were either completely suppressed or drastically altered"
Source: Eastern Religions in the Roman World | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/errw/hd_errw.htm |
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