A person who opposes or resists missionary work and the efforts of religious organizations to convert people to their faith.
Formed from 'anti-' (against) and 'missioner' (a person engaged in missionary work). This term emerged as a noun form of antimissionary sentiment in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Many antimissioners weren't necessarily atheist—they simply believed that local religions deserved respect and that religious conversion through colonialism was cultural violence, a perspective now widely validated by historians.
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