The Policy Of Religious Revival In Augustus Times And Its Affection To Roman Social Lives

This article has from the whole grasped the religious condition and the religious policy in the Augustus time, from politics, economy, culture aspect and so on, the multiple perspectives, multi-level conducts the analysis and research to each stratification plane reciprocity of the religious and the social life, has promulgated in the Roman society reforming time religious policy the profound influence which produced to the entire social life, has discussed in the time from republican to the monarchy reforming process how Roman religion in these aspects was reused .From the perspective of politics, the Roman religion is reused by four strengths. Augustus, Upper House, the Roman populace and the province, which embarked from respective standpoint to reform the traditional religion for their own goals, but in the actual operating process, did not achieve the goals they had conceived completely. Augustus hoped the religion to rich one kind of transcendence and the permanency for his authority, however, Upper House hoped to restore the traditional religion, because which is the sacred origin of her authority, but the religious revival they designed did not restore the traditional Gods status, but formed one kind of new worship form, namely the Augustus worship. The traditional Gods were realizing their own values in this kind of new worship. The reason that had this kind of condition, was because the traditional God already left the Rome then social life already very to be far, they were unable to arouse the Roman populace's enthusiasm and to satisfy their needs in the social life, specially in political life. Augustus appearance was happen to provide an opportunity for them. The Augustus worship became their new politics expression and the participation way. As for the province that, this kind of worship stemmed from their tradition, also was that they improved their own status, and obtained a method of the empire approval. The populace's enthusiasm and the method of Province, which were all used by the empire in turn, became the way that the empire transferred the populace to participate in politics and strengthen the rule to Province. The Augustus worship was a reasonable unified empire approval way that Rome found out after nearly a turbulent century, and which was the symbol that the Roman formed a unification politics pattern.From the perspective of economy, the religious revival and the economic boom also had the interaction relations. The religion revival poured the vigor into the economic boom, but latter also provided the economical support for former. However, the development of religious is an important expenditure of the empire finance, more and more became the burden to the empire finance.Moreover, the religious revival that the Augustus and Upper House advanced related with the traditional morals in together. As a result of the close relation between religious and the moral, they hoped standard society's moral order through the religious revival. This article thought they had obtained a certain success in this aspect.The religious revival is closely relevant to politics, economy, moral order and so...