Ethnic and religious solidarity jointly cemented trust in Armenian and Jewish trade

Evidence

In the towns, there was specialization, no trust, and order based on fear. Religion provided an idiom in terms of which the various elements of the total society could communicate with each other. It provided the terminology for both tribal trust and urban fear. It could intermittently help tribal cohesion to extend its scale, and to revitalize the polity by providing a new set of rulers. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2078 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Costly Islamic displays enabled trade and credit trust in Africa; Religion functioned as a shared communicative idiom bridging tribal trust and urban fear. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2078

Related

• Religion functioned as a shared communicative idiom bridging tribal trust and urban fear. (similarity 0.82)
• Costly Islamic displays enabled trade and credit trust in Africa (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Religion functioned as a shared communicative idiom bridging tribal trust and urban fear. #expands (0.78) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2078