0 a small structure like a box in a church, especially a Roman Catholic church, in which people can privately confess to a priest -- （尤指天主教堂中神父听取忏悔、告罪的）忏悔室，告解室
Its segmented politics, largely a product of the confessional system, is a recipe for corruption and, ultimately, government failure.
While the volume contains some interesting material, it is unlikely to recommend itself to readers who do not share its very overt confessional outlook.
According to context the term superstition might designate controversial beliefs, the practice of confessional opponents or the beliefs of the ignorant masses.
Whether they will pursue this equality in more narrowly defined confessional terms, or within broader cross-ethnic alliances, still requires much additional research.
And finally, he researched the diagram of a pastoral society which underlies the crusades and the confessional.
The bridges it had tried to build were broken at both ends, and the confessional historians of both sides hastened to erase its memory.
As the major parties developed away from interest, class, or confessional bases, a principal resource for verbal clashes declined.
One of his main points is about the importance of ideological promiscuity across confessional and national boundaries.
