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Today, the right is out there organizing and proselytizing and signing people up for yet another grievance-hyping mass movement.
It's not fatalistic to say so.Mr Frank's fair point is that there is much to be said for "organizing and proselytizing and signing people up for... [a] grievance-hyping mass movement".
Confucianism, Daoism, and, to a somewhat lesser degree, Shintō required expression through the arts; however, Buddhism's multiple sects, complex iconography, and program of proselytizing made it the natural and dominant vehicle of transcultural influence in East Asia.
The expansion of Islam into formerly Christian territories in the Middle Ages meant that the Christians could survive only in enclaves and were legally excluded from proselytizing among Muslims.
They serve this purpose because the relative abstractness, comprehensiveness, and concentration of the verbal expressions of beliefs enable them to serve better than most other forms of religious symbolism as stable identifying marks in pluralistic, changing, proselytizing , and missionary situations.
Along with fellow atheists Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel C. Dennett, he embarked on a campaign of lectures and public debates proselytizing and defending a secular worldview.
In the first quarter of the 6th century the proselytizing efforts of a Jewish Yemeni ruler resulted in a massacre of Christians in the major Christian centre of Najrān.
The earliest newspapers and journals were generally violently partisan in politics and considered that the fulfillment of their social responsibility lay in proselytizing their own party's position and denouncing that of the opposition.
Monasticism's function as a propagating or proselytizing agent of the religious tradition, however, is by no means universal nor even regionally uniform.
In the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in June, the government issued an order that banned proselytizing at sites associated with a different religion.
While the demise of the Soviet Union brought greater freedom for the Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists, a 1997 law passed at the urging of the Russian Orthodox Church (which was concerned about proselytizing ) restricts minority faiths in Russia.
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The primary grammatical function of "proselytizing" is as a verb , specifically in its present participle form. It describes the action of actively seeking to convert someone to a particular belief system or ideology. Ludwig's examples demonstrate its use in describing ongoing actions related to spreading beliefs.
Expression frequency: Very common
