Confessional community
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A confessional community is a group of people with similar
religious beliefs
.
In the
rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire and after the Ottoman Tanzimat (1839–76) reforms, the term millet was used for legally protected ethno-religious minority groups, similar to the way other countries used the word nation.[1]
The
Lebanese Constitution is based on the idea of Confessionalism
, a balance of powers between a number of state-recognized confessional communities.
See also
- Millet (Ottoman Empire)
- Vakif
References
- ISBN 0719037115, p. 18].
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