Sanctuaries in Raetia: space sacralisation in Roman religion at the edges of the Roman Empire
Sanctuaries in Raetia: space sacralisation in Roman religion at the edges of the Roman Empire

Summary/Abstract: The province of Roman Raetia became part of the Roman Empire in the beginning of the first century AD and was an important semi-peripheral region of the empire for more than three centuries. This paper will examine how the Roman presence and the new political, administrative reality changed the strategies of religious communication, especially in space sacralisation, the formation of sanctuaries and temples. The paper will discuss shortly the pre-Roman religion on the territory of Raetia, the religious transformations, continuities and discontinuities in sacralised spaces and finally, will present some aspects of religious communication in these sanctuaries in macro-, meso- and micro-spaces.

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