Why did the shift of focus from appealing to those people of marginal social standing to the elite a stimulating factor to the growth of world religions? What other factors aid in the ability for new religions overtake old ones in a society?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but correct responses should include: Although all these religions had started by appealing to people of modest or marginal social position, they "took off" by converting rulers and elites. In any case of mass adhesion to a new religion, most adherents join by attraction, in imitation of converted leaders; or by compulsion, when rulers or conquerors impose the new religion by force; or by default, as the old religion withers; or by birth, as subsequent generations join a community more or less educated in the new religious self-description. More important for changing the religious profile of a whole society than promoting the new religion is banning or underprivileging the old one.
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A) They encouraged slaves to run away. B) They attacked slave ships bound for the colony. C) They plotted with Native American peoples. D) They purchased land in the colony.