Outside WEIRD societies only religious ties extend cooperation beyond kin groups

Evidence

In the rest of the non-WEIRD world, euphemistically labeled as developing, people don’t trust the police, the courts, or for that matter, strangers. In this mostly religious world, what keeps the world going is the ties of blood, honor, and ethnic solidarity. Any cooperation beyond these immediate ties, when it happens, is of a religious nature. Supernatural monitoring by Big Gods is still the only game in town. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 554

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s Silence analysis: in a non-WEIRD world, Japanese religious institutions have no secular substitute available, so shogunal coercion against Christianity is not replacing a functioning secular order — it preserves that religious-monitoring monopoly.