confessional state

Mexico was born after its independence as a confessional state.

A confessional state is a state which officially practices a particular religion, and at least encourages its citizens to do likewise.

Both wanted to choose a non-Catholic to disprove the assertion that the State was a "confessional state".

He was accused of violating Article 3 of the constitution, which stated that Mexico was a confessional state.

The party joined forces with Kamal Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party in organizing the Lebanese National Movement, seeking to abolish the confessional state.

The presence of these diverse, cohesive groups led to the eventual emergence of the Lebanese confessional state, whereby different religious communities were represented in the government according to their numerical strength.

Irreligion in Mexico refers to atheism, agnosticism, deism, religious skepticism, secular humanism, and secularism in Mexican society, which was a confessional state after independence from Imperial Spain.

The confessional state is largely gone in the Western World, although in the Middle East, the confessional state, particularly in the form of the Islamic republic is still quite common.

Gomá was a fundamentalist, integrista, in the technical sense in believing in the necessity of a 'Confessional State' that imposes upon all its subjetcs the profession and practice of the Roman Catholic religion and prohibits all others.

KIMITAKA MATSUZATO & FUMIKO SAWAE, Rebuilding a Confessional State: Islamic Ecclesiology in Turkey, Russia and China, Religion, State & Society, Vol.

Not only advocates of a confessional state but also certain advocates of church/state separation saw the constitution as hostile; one such advocate of separation, Jose Ortega y Gasset, stated "the article in which the Constitution legislates the actions of the Church seems highly improper to me."