ABSTRACT
We have seen that through the shared work of administration and through the economics of supply and demand, a successful and integrated Romano-British society emerged. A powerful bonding-force to this society was provided by the wide variety of religious rituals practised within the province. Although in a few cases-most notably Christianity-the Roman state found itself at odds with a religious cult of provincial origin, the Romans were in general tolerant of the religious practices which they encountered in the empire, evidently believing that people were best left free to continue to seek the protection of their traditional gods.
