0 present participle of proselytize
1 to try to persuade someone to change their religious or political beliefs or way of living to your own:
He was also remarkable for the proselytizing zeal with which he wrote his political pamphlets.
Television has provided the evangelists with yet another platform for their proselytizing.
The second half (we are told) discusses attitudes towards proselytizing.
Undoubtedly, the music performed in that church was used for proselytizing purposes.
I have asked them many times about the influence of reformist and proselytizing organizations.
As might also be expected, this proselytizing literature was an important component of the early biopolitical writings.
They therefore encouraged their students to engage in proselytizing (da wa) and enforcement of religious laws (hisba).
This idea of mission is complex, and cannot be reduced to simply proselytizing for conservative political causes.
A lecture on proselytizing thus began with political tones and represented an opportunity to construct and disseminate a critique of the system within an educational context.
All this while a third group, ritually part of the second group, endorsed the dominant values, partly proselytizing and seeking to reform their brethren to conform to dominant values.
