Shared ritual creates religious unity that overrides racial and ethnic divisions

Evidence

A religious worldview can unite individuals across other (e.g., racial and ethnic) dimensions, and such unity is fostered by shared rituals, artifacts, and language all of which lead to obligated interdependence between members (Caporael, 1997; Caporael & Brewer, 1995). Obligated interdependence occurs when members of a group depend on other members to perform certain tasks or provide resources that each member cannot perform or obtain efficiently as an individual (Caporael, 1997; Caporael & Brewer, 1995). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 898

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relates to the immodesty/complaints and sacrifice articles: shared ritual conduct (dress, sacrifice, custom) is precisely what binds diverse members into obligated interdependence, echoing why moral panics over ritual violations read as existential threats.
• XREF: Cross-prejudice mechanism directly usable against prior commentary: an ingroup built on shared ritual rather than shared ancestry cuts across the ethnicity/race axis — complicates strictly ethnic-based readings of both religion and prejudice. — connects to: Consensus governance across diverse Tribes held together by a shared spiritual foundation — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 627
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 898