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Au-delà de la religion poliade: cité et religion en Gaule Narbonnaise

This paper questions the traditional polis religion model as it presents an artificial, static and distorted image of the religious conditions in the Roman West. The religious experience of the individual and his/her religious identity go far beyond the “civic cults”. Compared to the Iron Age, the Principate seems to be characterised by an diversification of cults and cult practices. In every region and ciuitas, this diversity resulted from individual choices concerning deities, theonyms, cult practices, architecture, sculpture, iconography, etc., with cults taking up substance from Greco-Roman, Greco-Oriental and indigenous traditions. This plurality is particularly characteristic for Gallia Narbonensis.