confessionalism

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

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