HSRP-525
Whitehouse's doctrinal mode supplies a center and a channel and his imagistic mode a fence; joined and turned on doubt, they give the cult's form.
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1. Header
2. The claim, in full
Whitehouse's doctrinal mode supplies a center and a channel and his imagistic mode a fence; joined and turned on doubt, they give the cult's form.
Cited on: /the-hive-mind, THE RELIGIOUS HIVE MIND › The working parts. Entered 2026-10-12 with the /the-hive-mind rewrite; tag NEW-W3a-6.
3. What it rests on
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Harvey Whitehouse distinguishes two modes of religion: the doctrinal, a creed taught on frequent routine and checked by an office, and the imagistic, rare and intense rites [SRC-960]. In /the-hive-mind's terms the doctrinal supplies a center and a channel and the imagistic a fence; joined and turned on doubt, the two give the cult's form (CULTS).
Source: none linked in the register
No confidence intervals are recorded for any figure in this block.
4. Sources
No source is linked to this observation in the register.
5. Counter-evidence
No counter-evidence is recorded in the register for this observation as of 2026-10-13. No search for counter-evidence has been recorded for this observation.
6. Why this grade
The argument for this grade has not yet been recorded for this observation.
The register defines WORKING as: A hypothesis or projection consistent with the evidence so far, but not yet confirmable.
7. Correction history
8. Related observations
- HSRP-455 · PROBABLE · With a center, most members follow a reset and refusers leave; without one, a body splits.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-524 · CONTESTED · Durkheim held that a gathered group fixes its shared intensity on its emblems as the sacred, so the reason ends in the group.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-526 · CONTESTED · Strict demands screen out free riders and bind those who stay, and the stricter religious communes lasted longer; that strictness makes churches grow is disputed.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-527 · WORKING · Sanctions price dissent, from Spinoza's ban in 1656 to shunning today, and parties and professions use them too: the sanction is a group's act, not a faith's.Relation: not recorded
- HSRP-528 · PROBABLE · A religious center reaches common practice more readily than private conduct: after Humanae Vitae most American Catholics rejected its ban on contraception, and the Soviet state's atheist monopoly closed churches but largely failed to produce atheist conviction.Relation: not recorded
9. Where this appears on the site
Content pages that cite this observation inline:
- The Programmable Hive Mind“Whitehouse's doctrinal mode supplies a center and a channel and his imagistic mode a fence; joined and turned on doubt, they give the cult's form — WORKING”
10. Open questions
Not yet recorded for this observation.
11. Machine block
The register record this page was generated from, with the derived fields added:
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