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Concordia Journal. Volume 41 | Number 1. Article 5. 2015. Making Sense of Confessionalism Today. Joel Okamoto. Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, okamotoj@csl.edu. Follow this and additional works at: htp://scholar.csl.edu/cj. Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons.
Mar 30, 2006 · In political science terminology, confessionalism is a system of government that proportionally allocates political power among a country's communities—whether religious or ethnic—according to their percentage of the population. It derives from another more academic term called consociationalism that, in essence, has four elements:
Dec 16, 2013 · Abstract. Recent research on the Reformation has considered the process by which lay people acquired a religious identity, whether it began merely as an act of political obedience or by a sudden “conversion” to new doctrines. Confessional politics made it imperative for rulers to try to control the religious allegiances of their people, but ...
Dec 20, 2019 · Consociationalism’s Place in an Era of Polarization. Half a century after the first article with “consociationalism” in the title was published (Lijphart 1969), the consociational literature is booming.As we will document below in this introduction to the special issue of Half a Century of Consociationalism: Cases and Comparisons, the number of journal articles on consociationalism has ...
Christian Thomasius (1655–1728) was a tireless campaigner against the political enforcement of religion in the early modern confessional state. In a whole series of combative disputations - against heresy and witchcraft prosecutions, and in favour of religious toleration - Thomasius battled to lay the intellectual groundwork for the ...
This mosaic of peoples and politics has led the Lebanese to historically seek a balance of power through a political arrangement known as confessionalism. What is Confessionalism? Confessionalism is a type of consociationalism.
Confessionalism is a system of government that is a de jure mix of religion and politics. It typically entails distributing political and institutional power proportionally among confessional communities. Debate.
