proselytization

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Nonproselytizing religions face an asymmetry, and their efforts to safeguard followers from predatory proselytization are routinely labeled violations of religious freedom and human rights.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Judaism, unlike Islam and Christianity, has no tradition of proselytization.

From Seattle Times • May 16, 2024

Most of the disaster victims I spoke to in New Mexico did not experience direct proselytization, and those who did had no complaints about it.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2023

Much of Tonkin’s work — detailed in his newsletter, “Amazon News” — followed what anthropologists describe as the Amazon’s third wave of the proselytization.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2021

Roxann Dawson’s faith-based film, “Breakthrough,” tells the story of John’s miraculous ordeal with an unassuming simplicity, focusing on the harrowing details of the case without an overreliance on proselytization.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2019