The act or process of converting people to Christianity through preaching the gospel, or promoting any cause with evangelistic methods.
From 'evangelize' plus '-tion' (action suffix). The systematic noun form emerged in 19th-century religious and missionary contexts to describe organized conversion efforts.
The Spanish and Portuguese evangelization of the Americas, starting in the 1500s, is one of history's most extensive cultural transformations—a single word encompasses centuries of religious, linguistic, and social upheaval!
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