missionaries
Faith-spreading travelers abroad
Missionaries are people sent to spread religious faith in foreign lands or among non-believers.
Christian missionaries have historically combined evangelism with education, healthcare, and humanitarian work.
The term extends to anyone zealously promoting a cause: dietary missionaries, democracy missionaries.
The missionary position—face-to-face sexual intercourse with one partner on top—supposedly reflects what missionaries taught as proper.
Advocate one's beliefs
- evangelizeSpread religious doctrine actively
- conversionAct of changing states
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- catechismReligious teaching guide
preach · gospel · salvation · converts · discipleship · revival · testimony · crusade
Domination through foreign settlement
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
settlers · indigenous · native · subjugation · cultural erasure · boarding schools · forced conversion · paternalism
Moving for work
- journeyTravel from place to place
- sendingCausing to go
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- furloughGranted absence from work
field · station · compound · foreign · overseas · posting · assignment · deputation
Support given freely
- reliefEasing of distress
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- orphanagesFacilities housing parentless youth
- hospitalsInstitutions treating the sick
schools · clinics · development · volunteer · service · outreach · education · literacy
Organized exploratory journey
- frontierEdge of settlement
- unchartedNot yet documented
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
linguistics · documentation · remote · isolated · first contact · mapping · journals · navigation
proselytize
Advocate one's beliefs
- evangelizeSpread religious doctrine actively
- conversionAct of changing states
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
catechism · preach · gospel · salvation · converts · discipleship · revival · testimony · crusade · evangelists
colonialism
Domination through foreign settlement
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
- assimilationAbsorbing into a whole
conquest · settlers · indigenous · native · subjugation · cultural erasure · boarding schools · forced conversion · paternalism · Western influence
itinerant
Moving for work
- journeyTravel from place to place
- sendingCausing to go
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
furlough · field · station · compound · foreign · overseas · posting · assignment · deputation · home leave
aid
Support given freely
- reliefEasing of distress
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- orphanagesFacilities housing parentless youth
hospitals · schools · clinics · development · volunteer · service · outreach · education · literacy · healthcare
expedition
Organized exploratory journey
- frontierEdge of settlement
- unchartedNot yet documented
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
anthropology · linguistics · documentation · remote · isolated · first contact · mapping · journals · navigation · discovery
- Christian ministryministry, preaching, evangelists, discipleship, pastors
- missionschurch planting, apostle, convert, apostleship, evangelization
- ChristianityJesus, Bible, Christ, God, Jesus Christ
- Mormon stereotypesBYU, Utah, polygamy, sister wives, no alcohol
- NZ pioneerssettlers, pioneers, colonists, early settlers, free settlers
- Portuguese ColonizersVasco da Gama, navigators, explorers, colonists, administrators
missionariesconverts
Those who switched faiths
heathens · pagans · infidels · apostates · unbelievers
missionarieshermits
People choosing isolation
homebodies · parishioners · congregants · contemplatives · monastics
missionariesindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
traditionalists · anti-colonialists · resisters · nativists · secularists
- Christian missionariesReligious conversion advocates abroad
- Catholic missionariesReligious workers spreading Catholicism
- American missionariesReligious workers sent overseas
- foreign missionariesReligious envoys to other nations
- Spanish missionariesReligious colonizers from Iberia
- early missionariesFirst religious emissaries abroad
dismiss, mission, commission, permission, admission, submission, transmission, emission, omission