christianization

Basically, de-christianization is associated with the regions involving a large number of landless workers, whereas this cultural process was least virulent in regions of peasant proprietorship.

Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009

Todd then uses these geographical patterns to explain something different: the pattern of de-christianization that took place over the century following the Revolution.

France as a "nation" Daniel Little 2009

Todd then uses these geographical patterns to explain something different: the pattern of de-christianization that took place over the century following the Revolution.

Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009

Basically, de-christianization is associated with the regions involving a large number of landless workers, whereas this cultural process was least virulent in regions of peasant proprietorship.

France as a "nation" Daniel Little 2009

Quite different, though also supported by the Papacy, was what was referred to as Specialized Catholic Action, which argued that re-christianization could only succeed by approaching distinct groups in distinct ways, a favored slogan being that of "like evangelizing like".

Catholic Social Thought: Europe 2008

The Lay Apostolate, therefore, has an important role to play in social education—especially those associations and organizations which have as their specific objective the christianization of contemporary society.

Mater et Magistra 2008

No doubt the christianization was pretty superficial and remained so for centuries, and any amount of paganism remained just below the surface.

Land of Angels, by Fay Sampson. Book review Carla 2007

Infant baptism became a christianization of Abraham's covenant with the Lord, a ritual signifying the contact and contract between God and humanity, centering on the element of society depicted as the most vulnerable and virtuous of humankind.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Don't forget that Thor was the favorite god of Icelanders before christianization so we don't believe that any Icelander can possibly see it as an insult, on the contrary.

languagehat.com: HIGH ICELANDIC. 2005

By will he left $300,000 for the christianization of the

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams