ELi5: How does religion spread through trade?

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I am reading about Islam in India. The wiki article states it was initially spread through trade, and Islam is now the second largest religion in India. But how? How does trade influence the spread of religion? Did these early traders talk about religion and the Indian traders like it better than theirs? Or did they get deals with Islamic traders?

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Traders spend a lot of time gathered round the camp fire telling one another stories before going to sleep, the better the stories the more they are retold, evenually the best stories become religions.

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