proselytism

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Supporters of this approach say that secularism, especially in schools but also in sports clubs, is crucial for youth to be free from pressures of proselytism and radicalization.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2024

"His alleged proselytism is not an excuse for kidnapping. If he did anything wrong, he should have the right as any citizen to trial."

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2017

Early Christianity, he points out, didn’t expand through arms or proselytism “but through attraction—it was attractive to become a Christian.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2016

“In concentrating on would-be jihadists you prevent proselytism, but you also contribute to eventually creating a network that did not exist before among these inmates.”

From Newsweek • Feb. 19, 2015

So far as they knew the temper and policy of the English, they might conclude their religion would at their hands not only be safe from violence, but protected from every attempt at proselytism.

From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by Kennedy, James