confessionalism

English

Etymology

confessional +‎ -ism

Noun

confessionalism (countable and uncountable, plural confessionalisms)

1. (religion) A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.
2. (poetry) A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.
3. A system of government in Lebanon that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.