A mechanism or tactic · 200 BC · Faith
The congregation
A regular assembled audience for a figure who addresses them, in a building, on a schedule, for years.
The largest organised parasocial arrangement in history, and the one the field has never taken seriously as one. It has a leader, a schedule, a building, an emotional register, an exegesis tradition and a revenue model.
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