Talk:Confessionalism (politics)

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[edit] confessionalism in the Netherlands

The reference to the Netherlands seems rather disturbing. Most countries have some confessional political parties - but this does far from make the political system confessionalist. If no objections I will delete the sentence. Bertilvidet 17:16, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Liberalism - liberal, confessionalism - confessional sounded logical to me. Moreover both the Confessional entries say nothing about christian democracy and I wanted to put the information somewhere. To me knowledge only the Dutch refer to their parties as confessional, atleast as far as the evidendence on wikipedia tells me. But if you feel strongly about this removed it.

BTW can you provide me with any links to academic sources on this use of the term confessionalism?

--C mon 21:22, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Northern Ireland

Should the proposed political dispensation in Northern Ireland under the Good-Friday Agreement be classified as a form of confessionalism. --Gramscis cousin 13:54, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I think the Bertilvidet has it -- countries that have confessional parties don't necessarily have political systems that match this definition of 'confessionalism'. As for N. Ireland, the Good Friday Agreement tends to be referred to as consociational. Even if 'confessionalism' is really a valid label for a political system, I'm not sure N. Ireland would count. While the fault lines are along religious lines, the issues are political (republicanism vs unionism) rather than centered around any religious questions.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.15.188.127 (talk • contribs)