Assimilation led to conversion far more often than to mixed marriage

Evidence

To put those numbers into perspective, the total number of Christians globally in 2015 was 2.3 billion. The total number of Muslims in 2015 was 1.8 billion, while the religiously unaffiliated comprised 1.2 billion of the world population (Pew Research Center 2017, 8). Thus, the net impact of religious switching on demographic changes is dwarfed by the larger population growth factors of fertility rates and age distribution. — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 34 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

I do not mean merely the inheritance and sale of private property in land in the usual sense. More important was the European practice of political transfers of lands, with their populations, via dynastic marriages. Princesses, on marriage, brought their husbands duchies and petty principalities, and these transfers were formally negotiated and ‘signed.’ The tag Bella gerant alii, tu, felix Austria, nube! would have been inconceivable for any state in precolonial Asia. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 696 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fertility and age structure dwarf conversion in shaping religious demographics. — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 34; European dynastic marriage made whole populations transferable like property. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 696; Polygenism justified colonial intermarriage bans and mixed-race discrimination

Related

• Conversion to Christianity exceeded mixed marriage as assimilation’s dominant path. (similarity 0.82)
• Islamic marriage freedom drew Christian converts, not just religious conviction (similarity 0.81)
• Fertility and age structure dwarf conversion in shaping religious demographics. (similarity 0.81)
• European dynastic marriage made whole populations transferable like property. (similarity 0.80)
• Dramatic demographic expansion is what makes a religion a world religion (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Fertility and age structure dwarf conversion in shaping religious demographics. #qualifies (0.72) — Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, 34
• European dynastic marriage made whole populations transferable like property. #qualifies (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 696
• Polygenism justified colonial intermarriage bans and mixed-race discrimination #responds-to (0.72)