The Church’s disciplinary practices manufactured the otherness categories that produced monsters

Evidence

Christianity, to some degree, determined people’s sense of normativity. The “disciplinary practices” supported and manufactured by the Church aided in the “formulations of the self and manipulations of (or resistances to) others.” The others who existed within a social community (Jews) and outside it (Muslims and Africans) established a category of monsters. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 90

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s Frankfurt School reading—Horkheimer’s idea that religion and culture, not law, constitute social subjects. The Church as disciplinary institution manufacturing normativity parallels that mechanism.
• ADDENDUM: The ‘complaints about immodesty’ article’s sumptuary-law thread—Church disciplinary practice over self-presentation is the same control channel.