Talk:Confessionalism (politics)

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)

You don't remove things because you "feel strongly" about them, that's what's wrong with WP. Things are either right or wrong, it's not how they make you feel. This article has been unfixable for so long maybe it should be removed.--Cuthbert Bargepole (talk) 21:52, 30 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Regardless of whether or not the section is relevant, this sentence doesn't make sense:
 * "A traditional norm in society, extending to many facets of cultural life, termed pillarisation."
 * not sure if it was meant to be "is termed pillarisation", or the sentence was cut in the middle. NourEhsan (talk) 09:02, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

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)


 * I think N Ireland should at least be noted in this article. IMO it does satisfy the criteria for Confessionalism, but in any case let the reader decide by linking appropriately. Fig (talk) 14:13, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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