Noun
The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.
Conversion to a religion, system, or party.
Source: Webster's dictionaryProselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. Pope Francis
Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. Pope Francis
Providence has given the French nation precisely two instruments, two arms, so to speak, with which it stirs up the world – the French language and the spirit of proselytism that forms the essence of the nation's character. Joseph de Maistre
Cambridge University Press. p. 173 Gurney stated that Young "retained a good deal of his old creed, and carried to his scriptural studies his habit of inquisition of languages and manners," rather than the habit of proselytism. Source: Internet
It is these differing interpretations of sharia that explain why many Islamic countries have laws that restrict and criminalize apostasy, proselytism and their citizens' freedom of conscience and religion. citation Saeed, Abdullah, and Hassan Saeed, eds. Source: Internet
Namely, Hadrian's legislation on castration was amended by Antoninus Pius in order to allow Jews to circumcise their own sons (Jewish proselytism among male converts remaining forbidden). Source: Internet