After the Pax Romana there were still the same religions as
before. Each ethnic group in the empire still had its own religion.
Christianity was already around during the period of the Pax
Romana. The Mithraic Mysteries, a cult which became popular after
this period, had already reached the Roman Empire from Persia in
the 1st century A.D. Manichaeism, another religion from Persia,
spread around the Roman Empire after the Pax Romana