Extinction: Polytheism Unreformed

Mario Ferrero

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism, 2022, pp 77-89 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter surveys the religions that became extinct. While we have no reliable information about the Celts, the Germanic religions had scanty professionalPriesthood/priestprofessional priesthood, so they offered little organize resistance to conversionConversion; in Iceland the assembly voted for the adoption of Christianity. In Greco-Roman religion both the pantheonPantheon and the priesthood continued unchanged in the empire. The elective cults multiplied but never challenged the civic religion, while the non-professional priests of the latter had no incentive to address the growing overlapping of divine jurisdictionsOverlap, of gods’ jurisdictions and the consequent inefficiencyInefficiency of the cult. So nobody in the system had an incentive to resist Christianization of the empire.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97943-0_5

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