confessionalization — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • storico
   • non numerabile

   Parole correlate

   deconfessionalization

   Esempi

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

   Altri esempi (1)

   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.