confessionalism

Examples

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• Indeed, 61.5% of all respondents agreed (or strongly agreed) that Lebanon was being held back by confessionalism; 23% took a noncommittal stance, and only 15% disagreed.

  Academic text (1999)

• The evidence of this survey suggests that Christians are more likely to believe that confessionalism is necessary for political stability and, presumably, therefore, many of them would seek vigorously to defend it.

  Academic text (1999)

• Respondents were asked to evaluate the informal institution of confessionalism and which political tendency or movement best represented their views.

  Academic text (1999)

• In the sample as a whole, 46% disagreed that confessionalism is necessary for stability, while only 32% agreed with that suggestion.

  Academic text (1999)

• In other words, Lebanese students in this sample largely agreed that confessionalism impedes development, regardless of their sect.

  Academic text (1999)

• Hart clearly is an advocate for confessional Protestantism, and his book displays some positive contributions that confessionalism can make to a pluralist, secular society.

  Academic text (2003)

• The respondents' discriminating approach to the two questions on confessionalism is evidence both of the political sophistication of this group of young Lebanese and of the centrality of this particular issue in Lebanon's political system.

  Academic text (1999)

• Sunnis were significantly less likely to agree with the proposition that confessionalism is necessary for stability (25%), with another quarter of them feeling non-committal about it and fully 50% disagreeing with the proposition.

  Academic text (1999)

• As traditional Christian support for the institution would lead one to expect, Orthodox (39%) were significantly more likely to agree on the stabilizing effect of confessionalism than any other sect (although 42% were in disagreement).

  Academic text (1999)

• Thus, Ta'if reinforced confessionalism by reforming it, correcting the historical imbalance in favor of Maronites that had contributed to the destabilization of the political system.

  Academic text (1999)

Synonyms

P

pluralism

vsconfessionalism

11 7.2

A society that accepts different racial, religious, and cultural groups and lets them keep their own ways

gives official recognition and political representation specifically to religious groups

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Etymology