Any single religion contains multiple contradictory class-specific versions

Evidence

The principal elements of common sense are provided by religion, and consequently the relationship between common sense and religion is much more intimate than that between common sense and the philosophical systems of the intellectuals. But even within religion some critical distinctions should be made. Every religion, even Catholicism (indeed Catholicism more than any, precisely because of its efforts to retain a “surface” unity and avoid splintering into national churches and social stratifications), is in reality a multiplicity of distinct and often contradictory religions: there is one Catholicism for the peasants, one for the petits-bourgeois and town workers, one for women, and one for intellectuals which is itself variegated and disconnected. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1504

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core concept: religion as internal multiplicity stratified by class, gender, and location — a key mechanism for how ideology operates unevenly.
• XREF: Directly feeds the Islamophobia module: ‘one Islam for the peasant, one for the petit-bourgeois’ framing maps onto how hegemonic readings flatten a plural tradition.