A person who evangelizes; someone who preaches the gospel or actively works to convert people to Christianity or a particular belief.
From 'evangelize' plus '-er' (agent suffix indicating a person who performs an action). Parallel formations exist across English: teach/teacher, work/worker.
'-er' is English's favorite way to create people-words—we have thousands of them, from 'baker' to 'dreamer,' making it possibly the most productive suffix for creating job titles and activists!
Agent noun traditionally male-coded in religious history; women evangelizers performed equivalent spiritual labor but faced institutional denial of formal role and authority.
Use without gender markers; recognize women and men equally as evangelizers.
Women evangelizers like Frances Willard and Jessie Penn-Lewis shaped religious movements through preaching, writing, and organizing but were systematically credited less than male contemporaries.
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