Violently interrupting the institutional repetition of a worldview can destroy it

Evidence

Whenever the continuity of relations between the Church and the faithful has been violently interrupted, for political reasons, as happened during the French Revolution, the losses suffered by the Church have been incalculable. If the conditions had persisted for a long time in which it was difficult to carry on practising one’s own religion, it is quite possible that these losses would have been definitive, and a new religion would have emerged, as indeed one did emerge in France in combination with the old Catholicism. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1222

Categorization

• XREF: A key mechanism for how state repression can dismantle ideological adherence, relevant to later Islamophobia readings on colonial disruption of Muslim institutions. — connects to: Truth-bearing worldviews become instruments of organized barbarism once wielded as power.; Traumatic events prompt extremists to reconsider accepted worldviews. — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 40