Conceived as the answer to all of mankind's seemingly insoluble health and social problems, and promoted as a substitute for orthodox religious beliefs, the pseudoscience of eugenics recruited disciples in many countries during the latter years of the nineteenth and early years of the twentieth centuries.
They published advertisements for meetings, where they recruited disciples, whom they called "crew".
In the 1930s, Foshan is a hub of Southern Chinese martial arts, where various schools actively recruit disciples and compete against each other.
Mitchell Orenstein shows how transnational actors have driven change in a policy area once thought to be beyond reform in many countries, and how they have done so by deploying their unique resources and legitimacy to promote new ideas, recruit disciples worldwide, and provide a broad range of technical assistance to government reformers over the long term.
Apple's minimalist steel-and-glass retail temples are essentially advertisements for its products, with customer service playing a crucial role in recruiting new disciples.
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.
Lifespring has been accused of "programming" its members to contribute money and recruit more disciples.
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.
It said Cherif Kouachi, 32 - subject of a massive manhunt in France along with his brother Said, 34 – was a disciple of Djamel Beghal, who is alleged to have recruited Richard Reid, known as the shoe bomber, and Zacarias Moussaoui, said to have been the "20th hijacker" in the 9/11 attacks.
