Renamed missionary units

[abbamouse]

What would we call someone who went into an area where a faith was not established and started teaching others? In some faiths, there are words for those who are spreading the faith to those who don't know it. Other religions have special words for teachers of the faith. I've tried to present the titles of those people who would be more likely to exist in a new area (ie probably very low in the religious hierarchy because there are no grand temples or elders in the area).

My thoughts:

Christianity = Missionary
Islam = Ulema (scholar, less authority than a Mullah)
Hinduism = Swami (teacher)
Taoism = Sage
Confucianism = Scholar (note: replaced by another faith in my mod)
Buddhism = Acariya (a teacher that can instruct a prospective monk)
Judaism = Rabbi (note: no Jewish missionaries in my mod)

Are there better names for these?

 

[obv]

Hello
Sorry but my english is very bad

i think what the names of:
Christianity; Islam, Juddaism, Hinduism are corrects

but the others religions I doubt that they are correct terms by lack of information

Acharya I a hindu teacher???
http://www.siddhashram.org/glossary.shtml

Taoism and Confuccianism i dont know

bye

 

[Tunch Khan]

Ulema is the plural of Alim (scholar) which is used to refer to a class of learned men instead of a person. Mullahs for that part, are part of the Ulema class. So you should probably use a singular word, either Mullah, Mufti, Imam or Alim (this latter one could be mistaken for regular scientist).

 

[abbamouse]

Thanks for the info.

1. ISLAM: I wanted someone with less authority than a Mullah and Alim does capture that. Alas, it is such a generic term it might not be regarded as religious. Imam has a dozen different meanings; some of them work in this context and some of them don't. Obviously it implies more authority among Shi'ites than Sunnis. I suppose it's something I can fall back on. A mufti seems too important, with the authority of issuing a fatwa.

So far either Alim or Imam seems best.

2. HINDU/BUDDHIST: Acharya does mean a Hindu teacher, but I worry it would be confused with Acariya or Buddhist teacher. I assume they have the same root word, so I picked Swami instead for Hindus.

 

[Rufus T. Firefly]

For Confucianism could be Ru (scholar on Chinese)