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Christianization

Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individual conversions, but has also been the result of violence. Christianization is also the term used to designate the…

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Missions

Individual conversion

Places and practices

Nations

Early colonialism (1500s–1700s)

Africa (19th to 21st centuries)

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Global Christianization

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Christianization

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see also · 30
Christianization → Albania, AmericasGoa InquisitionInculturationMissionsTaiping RebellionWesternizationChristianization, Anglo-Saxon EnglandChristianization, Anti-paganism, ArmeniaChristianization, Basque, BavariaChristianization, BulgariaChristianization, Byzantine EmpireChristianity, Celtic, Christian, Christianity, ChristianityConquistadorCrusadesEuropean, ChristianityHistory, EnglandChristianization, Faroe IslandsChristianization, FinlandChristianization, FranceChristianization, GoaChristianization, IcelandChristianization
related to Iberia · 26
Christianization → Arian Christianity, BC, Catholic Church, Christian, Edmund Spenser Bouchier, Elvira, France, Germanic Visigoths, Hebrews, Heraclius, Hispania, In, In AD, Jews, León, Mérida, North Africa, Roman, Roman Republic, Sisebut
related to Individual conversion · 25
Christianization → Alcuin, And, Augustine, Christian, Christianity, Christianizing, Constantine, Eastern Europe, Eastern Roman, God, Hanigan, Heraclius, However, In, James, Jews, Justinian, Late Middle Ages, Northern, Spain
related to Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland) · 24
Christianization → According, AD, Alexandra Sanmark, Anders Winroth, Between, Bluetooth, Christianity, Gormsen, Historian Florence Harmer, Hákon Aðalsteinsfostri, Iceland, In Sweden, King Olaf Tryggvason, King Olof Erikson Skötkonung, Norway, Peter Brown, Professor, Scandinavia, Scandinavian, Scandinavians
related to Albania · 21
Christianization → AD, Albanian, Albanian-inhabited, Albanians, At, Balkans, Between, Christian, Christianity, Christianized, Church, Classic Paganism, Gheg, Latin, Proto-Albanian, Roman, Romanization, Slavs, Some Albanians, South Slavic
related to Armenia, Georgia, Ethiopia and Eritrea · 20
Christianization → Apostles Thaddeus, Armenia, Armenian, Arsacid, Bartholomew, Byzantine, Caucasia, Christianity, Georgian, Gregory, Illuminator, In, Indigenous, It, Robert Thomson, Roman Empire, Scholarly, St, The, This
related to Europe and Asia of the High and Late Middle Ages (800 to 1500) · 19
Christianization → Although Christian, Bohemia, Bulgaria, Christendoms, Christian, Conversion, Croats, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe, Full Christianization, Historian Ivo, Hungary, In Central, In Eastern Europe, Latin, Peter Brown, Poland, Serbs, Western
related to Other sacred sites · 18
Christianization → Abbott Mellitus, Apollo, Augustine, Benedict, Britain, Christian, Englishman, Gregory, Hutton Webster, Kent, King Ethelbert, Monte Cassino, One, Pope Gregory, The, This, Venerable Bede, When Benedict
related to Early colonialism (1500s–1700s) · 17
Christianization → According, Achilles, Christian, Christianity's, Despite, Dutch Republic, England, Following, France, He, Historian Lamin Sanneh, History, In Sanneh's, Justo Gonzales, Portugal, Spain, While
related to Bulgaria · 16
Christianization → After, Boris, Bulgarian, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Bulgarian Patriarchate, Byzantines, Christianity, Church, Constantinople, Cyrillic, Khan Boris, Official Christianization, Proto-Bulgarian, Rome, Symeon, The

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the fourth century Augustineinstance ofwill include ethical changes.While Christian theologians0.80text
the ninth century Alcuin maintained that conversion must be voluntaryinstance ofwill include ethical changes.While Christian theologians0.80text
there are historical examples of coercion in conversioninstance ofwill include ethical changes.While Christian theologians0.80text
New Testament scholar Bruce Chilton who argue that there were multiple origins of the Eucharist.In the Middle Agesinstance ofthere are others0.80text
the Eucharist came to be understood as a sacramentinstance ofthere are others0.80text
the Parthenon which was converted to a church in the sixth centuryinstance ofaside from a few rare instances0.80text
temple conversionsinstance ofaside from a few rare instances0.80text
the melusinainstance ofIn earlier times many of these were seen as guarded by supernatural forces0.80text
and many such pre-Christian holy wells appear to have survived as baptistriesinstance ofIn earlier times many of these were seen as guarded by supernatural forces0.80text
Jews or pagans.Howeverinstance ofsuch as the Donatists and the Manichaeans and not at non-believers0.80text
Constantine must have written the laws that threatenedinstance ofsuch as the Donatists and the Manichaeans and not at non-believers0.80text
menaced pagans who continued to practice sacrificeinstance ofsuch as the Donatists and the Manichaeans and not at non-believers0.80text

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