found: Work cat.: Confessionalization and/as knowledge transfer in the Greek Orthodox Church, 2021:p. 1 (whereas the confessionalization paradigm, as it was originally connected to the formation of the early modern state and the accompanying imposition of social discipline, seems to have exhausted its dynamism, growing tendencies in recent scholarship have attempted to refresh the debate on the one hand, by applying it to historical contexts different than the western and central European, Protestant and Catholic, i.e., by tracing confessionalization processes on a global scale as part of a transreligious 'age of confessionalization'; and on the other, by shifting its focus from social history to the history of knowledge, and by understanding confessionalization primarily as an epistemic phenomenon, as consisting primarily in posing and answering new questions on confessional contents)
found: Harris, S. Confession-building, long-distance networks, and the organization of Jesuit science, in Early science and medicine, v. 1, no. 3 (Oct. 1996), via JSTOR website, Nov. 10, 2022:abstr. (the ability of the Society of Jesus to engage in a broad and enduring tradition of scientific activity is here addressed in terms of its programmatic commitment to the consolidation and extension of the Catholic confession (i.e., to a multi-pronged program of confession-building) and its mastery of the administrative apparatus necessary to operate long-distance networks)
found: Definitions website, Nov. 10, 2022(confessionalization is a recent concept employed by Reformation historians to describe the parallel processes of "confession-building" taking place in Europe between the Peace of Augsburg and the Thirty Years' War; during this time prior to the Thirty Years' War, there was a nominal peace between the Protestant and Catholic confessions as both competed to establish their faith more firmly with the population of their respective areas; this confession-building occurred through "social-disciplining," as there was a stricter enforcement by the churches of their particular rules for all aspects of life in both Protestant and Catholic areas; this had the consequence of creating distinctive confessional identities; Calvin's Geneva is a model case for the confessional era because of its high degree of social control, unity and homogeneity under one expression of a reformed Christian faith)
found: Confession-building and confessionalization in a comparative early modern perspective, via Central European University website, Nov. 10, 2022(the objective of this course is to examine the relationship between various state- and confession-building projects in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in a trans-regional and trans-religious perspective; the question at the heart of this endeavor is whether a peculiar, distinctly "early modern" type of relationship between the processes of state- and confession- building can be identified that is at the same time global (if not in the sense of the whole world, then at least of a large part of it) in nature)
found: Deventer, J. "Confessionalisation"--a useful theoretical concept for the study of religion, politics, and society in early modern East‐Central Europe?, in European review of history, v. 11, no. 3 (2004), via ResearchGate website, November 10, 2022:abstr. (the confessionalisation paradigm, introduced by two German historians in the early 1980s, initiated a fundamental change of perspective in the scholarship of early modern Germany; taking into account long‐term developments and directing attention to the relatively neglected period between the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 and the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648, the concept paved the way for historical writing that considers 'religion' and 'church' as an integral part of societal history)
found: Bell, Dean Philip. Confessionalization in early modern Germany : a Jewish perspective, in Politics and reformations, 2007:p. 345 (Confessionalization has recently been defined as the "consolidation and advancement of the development of the three confessions (Catholic, evangelical, and Reformed Churches) in terms of religious doctrine, relationships with the state and developing religious identities, particularly in Germany but also in other parts of Europe and its empires") p. 346 (According to another interpretation, confessionalization is "The spiritual and organizational solidification of the various Christian confessions diverging since the faith-split to a halfway stable Church according to dogma, constitution and religio-customal life form"; the paradigm generally assumes that confessionalization unfolded especially in Germany between the years 1555 and 1648, though some scholars maintain that the confessionalization of the Church followed the process of splintering and differentiation of Western Christianity that began with the Hussites in the later Middle Ages and culminated with the "confessional churches" after the sixteenth-century Reformation) p. 347 (confessionalization was caused by religious innovation and the origin of and competition between more churches with absolute claims; processes include: the eradication of unclear beliefs; ensuring against the unsuitable; censure; the monopolization of education; the distancing and isolation of dissidents; an emphasis on differentiating rites; and linguistic exclusion; institutional forms include: new church organization; the establishment of confession-specific education; confessional-specific control and repression; and the symbiosis with the state; confessionalization intentionally led to the establishment of confessionally correct behavior and unintentionally contributed to the development of State authority, modernization, and possibly to an emotional crisis and the secularization of Europe)
found: Wiktionary, Nov. 16, 2022(confessionalization (plural confessionalizations): (ecclesiastical, chiefly historical) The fixing of religious beliefs into set categories of denomination or dogma)
found: Britannica online, Nov. 16, 2022(under Germany > Lutheran church organization and confessionalization: "About this time [1530s] much more rigid standards of religious orthodoxy and conformity were imposed. This development has been called 'confessionalization,' a concept used by some historians to define developments in the empire during the mid-16th century. Confessionalization completed the process, under way since the late Middle Ages, of meshing religious and church politics with the objectives of the state. Central to this process was the institution of a territorial religion that was based on an authorized declaration of doctrines (a 'Confession') binding on all subjects and implemented by an established church responsible to the ruler (or, in city states, to the magistrates)")
