Definitions
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- noun ecclesiastical The fixing of
religious beliefs into set categories ofdenomination ordogma .
Etymologies
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From confessionalize + -ation.
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Examples
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That's because North Dakota started at a very high level of confessionalization, so any shift would show as a large relative change.
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A similar modus operandi has been applied in Anglo-American occupied Iraq through the confessionalization of the Iraqi identity into Shiites and Sunnis.
GlobalResearch.ca 2009
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If early and high orthodoxy were eras of confessionalization, late orthodoxy was an era of "deconfessionalization."
Green Baggins 2008
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