Martin Lund’s Reviews > Rethinking Greek Religion > Status Update

"[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.