Meaning of confessionalization | Babel Free

Definitions

The fixing of religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma.

countable, historical, uncountable

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“Confessionalization represents the defeat of efforts to rebuild the unified Latin Church.”

“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.”

CEFR level