confessionalization
English
Etymology
From confessionalize + -ation.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kənˌfɛʃ(ə)nəlʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Noun
confessionalization (plural confessionalizations)
- (ecclesiastical, chiefly historical) The fixing of religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 639:
- Confessionalization represents the defeat of efforts to rebuild the unified Latin Church.
- 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin 2017, p. 121:
- Regardless of belief, all secular and ecclesiastical authorities pursued similar policies of ‘confessionalization’ intended to impose the official faith of their territory through education, improved clerical supervision and more intensive ‘visitations’ to probe individual belief and monitor religious practices.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 639:
Related terms
- deconfessionalization
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