confessionalism

noun3

1. •
   A system of government that proportionally distributes political and institutional power among religious and ethnic communities.
2. •
   A style of American poetry that draws on the personal history of the poet.

   • Her rendition of "Dry Land" from her first album, Back to the Night, was a poetic fusion of music and lyrics that achieved an intimate tone too often sacrificed to confessionalism by other singers. — 1977
3. •
   A belief in the importance of full and unambiguous assent to the whole of a religious teaching.