The few verbal messages could have been anything from commercials to religious evangelism, or something that had no human analogue at all.

He said it was a "flat violation" of the First Amendment's prohibition against government "establishment" of religion for an agency of the state "to support religious evangelism with direct funding."

But even in today's more accommodating environment, constitutional scholars agree that one line between church and state has remained fairly bright: The government cannot directly finance or support religious evangelism or indoctrination.

There are reflections on America's military and industrial might, its treatment of minorities, its consumerism, its justice system, its marketing strategies, its religious evangelism, its celebrity worship and its interference with other governments.

Projects born of the Helping Angels movement are supported by 4 exclusive rules - no involvement in fund raising or collection of donations, no commercial marketing activities, no political rallying activities, no religious evangelism allowed.

He would have been much more disturbed, I think, by today's religious evangelism.

The word evangelism is taken from the context of religious evangelism due to the similarity of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs with the intention of converting the recipient.

African scholar Makau Mutua criticizes religious evangelism on the ground of cultural annihilation by what he calls "proselytizing universalist faiths":

This lighter side of Peake can also be seen in "Mr. Pye" (1953), his satirical novel about religious evangelism, and in his nonsense verse.

In a preliminary order last month, Judge Berman said that Mr. Mason's lawsuit did not seem likely to succeed on the merits because he is a public figure and noncommercial religious evangelism is constitutionally protected.