They published advertisements for meetings, where they recruited disciples, whom they called "crew".
And it seems like advocates are actively trying to recruit more disciples.
Bowen visits the Dome of the Rock, the site of Jerusalem's temple, and discusses how Jesus went to the Sea of Galilee to recruit his disciples.
More unusual, if not scandalous, would be a band of unmarried tradesmen who were well into adulthood when recruited as Jesus' disciples.
But it would have been, just the same, the declaration of a new religion — the kind, as Salomé confided to a friend that summer, that "recruits heroes as its disciples".
The big bucks, of course, go to those who sign a large number of disciples who go on to recruit other vendors.
In the September/October 2013 issue of Recruiter Journal, Steve Lambert contributed a short op-ed titled "Advertising Update: Know Your Audience: Generation Edge," in which he argues that although millennials are "digital disciples and highly sociable," new recruiting tactics need to be developed now to attract the next generation of cadets.
Some spread their message using Facebook and YouTube, like Brazil's Inri Cristo, who has his disciples cover songs like Rihanna's "Umbrella" to recruit younger followers.
David Newnham Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop In this Chinese classic, the monk Tripitaka travels to India to fetch sacred Buddhist texts, accompanied by three disciples: the greedy Pigsy, the river monster Sandy and Monkey (recruited so that they may atone for past sins), on the way doing battle with demons, monsters and evil magicians.
Others attract disciples.
