confessionalism

(noun)

noun

1. a belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.

2. a style of American poetry that drew on the personal history of the poet

3. (in Lebanon) a system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.

- Lebanon's confessional system has both helped preserve a modicum of inter-communal stability and contributed to the breakdown of state and society from 1975 to 1990.