The Church healed elite-mass splits through reabsorbed popular movements.
Evidence
This split was “stitched over” by the birth of popular religious movements subsequently reabsorbed by the Church through the formation of the mendicant orders and a new religious unity. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1194
Categorization
- XREF: Concrete historical instance of the mechanism in 1193 — useful example of ‘reabsorption’ of dissent that parallels how states absorb heterodox ideology.