Status Updates From Rethinking Greek Religion

"[S]idelining these practices by putting them into a separate category is to extend the ideology of the polis into modern scholarship [...] to turn an evaluative term from within Greek religion into a descriptive one."

But the exact same critique applies to using "religion" and "the religious" to talk about ancient Greece. It's a modern evalutive term projected back into the mists of time.

This page does consider the lack of a sense/notion of belief in ancient Greece but brushes it aside right away in a distinctly un- or even antihistoricist manner.

Describing approaches to the past as ”anti-historicist” is sometimes necessary and accurate, but it’s not a good look in a book where no effort is spent to consider whether a modern, historically rooted term (”religion”) is applicable to an ancient Greek context and if so, in what ways.

If I’m understanding the argument being built here right, the rethinking is not about whether it is constructive or useful to impose the modern concept of ”religion” on ancient Greece, but about whether scholars have been too focused on politics and not seen Greek ”religion” as a personal, internal, apolitical affair.