wyznawcy in English:

All his followers looked up to him as a wise and courageous man.

a lot of followers

On the religious side, the decision caused serious dissension among followers.

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

At that time in the courts of the feudal lords there were many scholars who engaged in discrimination, such as the followers of Xun Kuang, who wrote books that were disseminated throughout the whole world.

But what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.