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christianization

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The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.

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For the priests and medicine men of isolated pockets of resistance against christianization or islamization somewhere in Africa or America, it must be quite a boost of faith in the future to see this kind of international gathering under the auspices of the most successful resister, Hindu Dharma. Koenraad Elst

After the Christianization of Norway in 1030, Hamar began to gain influence as a centre for trade and religion, until the episcopal representative Nikolaus Breakspear in 1152 founded Hamar Kaupangen as one of five dioceses in medieval Norway. Source: Internet

A Christianization program was put on place across the high Pyrenees (778). Source: Internet

Alypius was afterwards commissioned to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem as part of Julian 's systematic attempt to reverse the Christianization of the Roman Empire by restoring pagan and, in this case, Jewish practices. Source: Internet

Borrowing from Latin continued after the fall of the Roman Empire during Christianization, mediated by the church and monasteries. Source: Internet

A spring dedicated to Holy Niels that was likely a Christianization of prior indigenous pagan practice also exists in Viby and the city itself may mean "the settlement by the sacred site". Source: Internet

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