Case study
Pre-Vatican-II Catholicism: the Latin Mass is high optionality, low access — ritual carries enormous doctrinal precision encoded across centuries; full participation requires a trained reader of the apparatus. The vernacular reform shifted to high access, lower precision — local-language liturgy that the broader laity can participate in, with many of the Latin form’s specific theological commitments either flattened or absent. Optionality-vs-access trade-off in religion; canonical example of religions scaling past their original community by institutionalizing the split between a preservation-side (specialist apparatus) and an access-side (lay participation form).
Connections
- Discussed in: Ch 4 — Optionality vs. Access, Ch 8 — Preservation vs. Training
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