Modern society is governed by regulations, mostly written, and interpreted by experts account for their decisions in an ostensibly reasoned fashion. The sacred world of the Orthodox and the secular one that envelopes them function similarly. While sharing, of course, no common source, they do share a similar manner of operation. As [people], moreover, now submit to rule rather than to custom, the Orthofox and the modern [individual] now share a common mode of legitimacy… Religion can endure under almost all circumstances, even grow under most, but it flourishes more easily when the inner and outer worlds, the world as believed and the world as experienced, reflect and reinforce once another, as did mimetic religiosity in a traditional society and as does now, to a lesser but very real extent, a text-based religiosity in a modern, bureaucratic society.

— Rupture and Reconstruction by Haym Soloveitchik (Page 19 - 20)