confessionalization

was the process during the ReformationA revolutionary religious movement during the 16th century Europe that initially sought to reform the Roman Catholic Church but led to the emergence o... more era where both ecclesiasticalFrom the Greek word ecclesia, meaning church or congregation and is used to refer to both separate Christian congregations and to the whole body of Ch... more and secularOf the world in contrast to the divine. more authorities worked together to create a well-informed and obedient populace who adhered to a particular confessional belief whether it was Roman Catholic, Lutheran, or Calvinist.