Confessional community

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Confessional community is a term referring to grouping based on similarity.

Use under Ottoman Empire, Millet (Ottoman Empire): The main property of a confesional community lies under the term confession as it gives the choice to the person, opposed to forced classifications such as nationality. As a form; the source lies being a real (natural) classification of the social structure; As a power; community perceived as a basic (unified) source of movement (mobility) in the society and organizing this source (mobility) as a willing power was enabiling the individual person not having what s/he are not and at the community level to enable putting up a front as a group.