missionization
- noun
- /ˌmɪʃəˈnaɪzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
misionización
- The state played a critical mediating role in the Protestant missionization of Ecuador during the first half of the twentieth century.
- missionization process
- missionization and conversion
- Catholic missionization
Examples
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Tanzanian church leaders in the north spoke of the time as an era of renewed missionization and acknowledged that government cutbacks on social services paved the way for church expansion.
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Virtually all Chambri by this time had been exposed to missionization, and some had become at least nominal Catholics.
Academic text (1991) -
Their incredible survival allows us a particularly good look at how missionization changes the lives of California Indians.
Academic text (2016) -
As far as the anthropology of missionization goes, most scholars would agree the end is not near.
Academic text (2002) -
One does wonder, though, why there were no Namibian critics of missionization.
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Official decree had divided the frontier region of the Upper Rio Negro into provinces of Catholic and Protestant missionization.
Academic text (1996) -
In this instance, at least, becoming a "civilized youth" meant anything but lack, and the construction of a new set of gender standards during missionization would make a dramatic impact on the history of a twentieth-century African nation-state.
Academic text (2000) -
Second, the significance of twins as a social and symbolic category changed under the influence of missionization, European medical practice, and the decreasing importance of indigenous ritual and political power in the British mandate/trust era.
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Within Onitsha in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, economic prosperity and Christian missionization may indeed have led to a decline in ritual proscriptions around twins.
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The missionization of indigenous communities often led to significant cultural changes and adaptations.
Synonyms
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8.0
Spreading religious beliefs to try to convert people
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9.3
The process of changing people or places to follow the religion of Jesus
How Widespread
Surface Forms
Morphology
missionization = missionize (transparent) = mission + ize + ation
The noun is a regular formation from the verb 'missionize' with '-ation', and the meaning is directly recoverable from the base.
Etymology
The word missionization starts with mission, from a word that means 'to send', and is related to missionary, a person sent to teach a religion. The ending -ization shows a process, so missionization is the process of sending people to set up missions and spread a faith.