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How early we talking about? The city-state? The republic? Or the empire?
IIRC, it was important, but there was also a mind your own beeswax kind of thing with a lot of stuff. They were pretty tolerant of other, minor religions, such as Judaism or Christianity, for the most part (until the Christianization, then they were a bit more like "all that other stuff is Evil Pagan Nonsense!"). So long as they didn't cause any bother.
Anyway, they biggie that everyone yaks on about are, of course, they aptly named semi-official Roman Gods. Basically they're the Greek Gods but with added Latin. Jupiter (Zeus), Mars (Ares) or Venus (Aphrodite). There was all that jazz about Romulus and Remus as well. I don't know at what point in "Rome's" history they took the Greek's gods. I know there was a period where they got a hard-on for all things hellenistic, from the gods to the architecture, but I don't have a timeline handy.
They liked to incorporate other religions as well, or say that it was Roman all along. Some conquered group has a God of War? "Well, we did some research and it turns out that Pagan War God 6 is actually Mars after all." Then they'd mostly leave them to get on with it.
Saying that, there was a quite big deal on associating specific gods with specific political stuff. But I can't remember that and don't care enough to look it up.
Note that this is mainly from old memories and a quick skim through wikipedia. I'm not gonna vouch for the accuracy of any of this. In summary though, they were cool with it.
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It had state gods but allowed other religions.
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Is there a name for ancient roman religion?
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it allowed people to follow many different religions.
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It had state gods but allowed other religions.
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Why do some of the governments in Latin America support the Roman Catholic Church?
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How did the Romans influence the spread of religion and what was the main religion they practiced?
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What is the dominant religion in ancient roman?
The dominant religion in the Roman Empire was the Roman religion until Christianity became the dominant religion.
Is there a name for ancient roman religion?
Roman religion
Are Roman Catholics the biggest religion in the world?
.Catholic AnswerFirst of all, outside of the diocese of Rome, there is no such thing as "Roman Catholic" as a religion. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the Catholic Church. .As of the statistics available in the summer of 2012, Islam is the most populous religion in the world.
