The Church’s moral discipline manufactured the monstrous Other

Evidence

The language of identity was strongly influenced by the Church. “The language of identity is always spoken in response to the language of morality.” 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: The inside/outside structure of the monstrous Other — Jews inside the community, Muslims and Africans outside — anticipates the projection thesis: what cannot be faced becomes the outside monster.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what specific Church disciplinary practices (penitentials, sermons, art) concretely manufactured the monstrous categories?