St. James Church
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Event Involvements
Events with structured involvement data
St. James Church (as an organization invoked in Donna's anecdote) functions narratively to legitimize Fishhooks McCarty's ritual and to provide a moral-ritual foil for the administration's compromises.
Through Donna's retelling of Fishhooks' daily prayer stop; the church's presence is purely anecdotal.
Moral and cultural authority used symbolically rather than institutionally; not exerting direct influence on policy.
Provides a private moral vocabulary that staff use to reframe ethical compromises; highlights how faith language can be co-opted rhetorically.
Not applicable within the scene beyond anecdotal invocation.
St. James Church is invoked in Donna's Fishhooks McCarty anecdote as the daily ritual anchor that humanizes a corrupt figure and legitimizes pragmatic compromises; it functions narratively as moral counterpoint rather than a physical actor.
Through Donna's retelling of McCarty's ritual and prayer — the church's presence is narrative and symbolic.
A moralizing cultural touchstone that provides authority to Donna's framing; not a direct actor in the political exchange.
Positions civic religious ritual as a lens to interpret political compromise, underscoring how personal faith and public pragmatism can be rhetorically intertwined.
Not directly engaged; functions entirely through staff narrative use.