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If by well you mean successful there are many campaign that lead to large portion of populations converting
Safavid Iran,Spain during the 1400s and 1500s ,Roman empire under Theodosius I, Devshirme, etc...
All of those are marked by mass death and campaigns of significant violence. Geopolitically, it can be argued the Safavid conversions were a mistake as it made Iran an “other” and reduced possible allies. Spain? Yeah, that worked out well, really smooth the way they got rid of aaaaalll the Jews. I mean, you don’t hear of the Inquisition being used as a metaphor for brutal ignorance or bureaucratic murder at all do you? The Theodosius one I’m no expert, but you can argue it wasn’t forced conversion, more banning of public expression of paganism. Also, hardly effective or “ending well”.
Islam, generally...well, it didn't end well but it did end Muslim...
In many places, not all, and accompanied by violence. Not ending well. Anything that results in hundreds and thousands of death, I tend to put in the “not ending well” column, FYI.
Not fond of forced conversion obviously but a very recent case is East-Timor where Indonesia forced the people there to convert to a monotheistic religion, what used to be an area full of traditional religions is now one of the most Catholic countries in the world.
Fair point. But Indonesia is Muslim and East Timor Catholic. Also, still violent and opposed (at least initially) by the people being converted.
There's already precedent for forced conversion of Indian Muslims to Hinduism during the Mughal empire. In fact, conversion of Muslims to Hinduism was so prevalent that the Mughal government had to place legal protections upon the Muslim community, not that they did much. Of course, the situation is different than post-independence India and probably less conducive to conversion, but it shows that it's been done.
Yeah, Mughal Empire is kind of out of the timeframe I’m thinking of. Also, once again, violent.
the conversion of the saxons by Charlemagne?
Pretty voluntary in the most part and for socio-economic gain by and large. Also, too far back historically to be considered.