Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Devotion to the maintenance of a creed or church confession; the tendency to construct confessions or creeds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) An exaggerated estimate of the importance of giving full assent to any particular formula of the Christian faith.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.
- noun a style of American poetry that drew on the personal history of the poet
- noun a system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.
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Examples
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The fact that groups like Hezballah are releasing, for the first time, a national agenda - to remove confessionalism from the political system, introduce proportional voting, combat corruption and lower the voting age to 18 - is evidence that the political dynamics in the country have indeed changed.
Global Voices in English » Lebanon: From the Election Campaign Trail 2009
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The only kind of consociationalism that might work in Israel and Palestine is confessionalism, which is "a system of government that distributes political and institutional power proportionally among religious communities" - such as in Lebanon.
Ami Kaufman: Israel: The One-State Solution Should be Taken Off the Table 2010
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Lebanon gained independence in 1943, and established a unique political system, known as confessionalism, a power-sharing mechanism based on religious communities.
WN.com - Articles related to 'Arab summit is political theatre' 2010
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Lebanon gained independence in 1943, and established a unique political system, known as confessionalism, a power-sharing mechanism based on religious communities.
WN.com - Articles related to 'Arab summit is political theatre' 2010
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Sleiman took a risk in mentioning the abolition of political confessionalism, which is unpopular among Christians, and no doubt in the coming days his critics, many of whom would otherwise advocate setting up a system of thirds, will bellow that the president is selling the Christians out.
The Daily Star > News Feed Michael Young 2009
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According to Beirut newspaper L'Orient, any one of the recognized religions (a system known as "confessionalism") can ask the Sûreté to ban any book unilaterally.
Why Jane Fonda Is Banned in Beirut William Marling 2009
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The upshot was the emergence of "confessionalism", an inward-directed search for the "true" Luther that ended up with
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The political system is based on an undemocratic gerrymander system called "confessionalism" that guarantees seats based on religious affiliations.
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The upshot was the emergence of "confessionalism", an inward-directed search for the "true" Luther that ended up with a highly orthodox theology that seemed frozen in place until the
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Lebanon established a unique political system in 1942, known as confessionalism, a power-sharing mechanism based on religious communities. [
WN.com - Articles related to 'Arab summit is political theatre' 2010
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