The above texts are best understood in the context of which of the following?

(A) The use of religion to justify gender relations (B) The use of religion to enforce legal norms (C) The use of religion to ponder conceptions of the afterlife (D) The use of religion to explain social hierarchyExplanation: (C) This question touches on the various roles played by religion in the societies that adopt them. While religions address all the issues listed in the answers, there is no indication in either text that gender or social status is at stake, and behavior of any kind, legal or otherwise, is not discussed in the first text. Although neither text says so explicitly, each discusses the fate of the soul after death.