Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
Glossary item | Definition |
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Mon-Khmer | An Austro-Asiatic ethnolinguistic family, with over 50 languages. |
monocultural evangelism | Evangelistic activities that take place, from evangelist to audiences, within a single culture only. |
monodenomination | A large Christian denomination of over 1 million affiliated members, which therefore functions as a Christian religion in its own right. |
monoethnic church | A church or denomination whose members are entirely, or mainly, from a single ethnic group, tribe, caste or people; a one-tribe or one-people church. |
monolingual | A person or group knowing or speaking only their own language. |
monolinguals | Persons speaking or understanding only one language, namely their mother tongue. |
Monophysites | Pejorative term for Oriental Orthodox (qv). |
monoreligion | An ethnoreligion restricted in membership to one culture or people. |
monotheist | One who believes in monotheism, the doctrine or belief that there exists only one God. |
monovocational | In contrast to bivocational persons, monovocational persons describes missionaries whose main or only vocation and profession is full-time Christian service with particular emphasis on the ministry of evangelization and evangelism that results in churches. |
monsignor, monseigneur | (mgr, msgr). A title of honor for a non-episcopal prelate of the Catholic Church. |
monthly attenders | Affiliated Christians (church members) who attend church services of public worship on average once a month. |
monthly letters | The total regular monthly flow of listeners’ letters received by a radio or TV station or program. |
monthly radio audience | The average regular audience each month for a Christian radio or TV station or program. |
Moravians | A Protestant tradition, also known as Unitas Fratrum (Unity of the Brethren), or Continental Pietists. |
moribund microreligion | A very small organized local religion, rapidly declining, with under 100 adherents. |
Mormons | Followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints and its over 90 schismatic bodies. |
mosque | (Arabic, masjid). A Muslim place of public religious worship. |
mother | A rank or office in numerous Non-White indigenous churches. |
mother church | Ecclesiastically (not theologically), a large central church (particularly in South American Protestantism) with a number of derived daughter churches. |
mother house, motherhouse | The original monastery or convent of a religious community or the one where the superior general or provincial lives. |
mother superior | A nun who is the head of a religious house. |
mother tongue | The first language spoken in an individual’s home in his early or earliest childhood; one’s first language or native language. |
mother tongue | Main language of a person’s home or childhood; the first language spoken in an individual’s home in his early or earliest childhood; one’s first language or native language. |
motu propio | (Latin: by one’s own impulse). Arescript initiated and issued by the Catholic pope of his own accord and apart from the advice of others. |
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