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Confession (Sacramental Act)
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Acknowledging Oneself 1. As a result of the loss of significance of the large churches, the meaning of ‘confession’ has only marginally to do with a public or private religious act involving the acknowledgement of guilt and sin. On the other hand, the public ‘confessions’ on talk shows, especially of sexual misdeeds on the part of celebrities, or analogous acknowledgments on the part of politicians, enjoy high public notice. Historically, with the development of the various forms of confession as spaces of religiously defined
self-thematizing,1 the Christian churches in Europe …
Source:
The Brill Dictionary of Religion
