Urban high religion teaches rule-following rather than group loyalty
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 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Rural folk religion reinforces group boundaries through local sacred markers; Religion functioned as a shared communicative idiom bridging tribal trust and urban fear. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2078; Coding religion as rule-like law crushes moral freedom and spontaneity. (+2 more)
Related
- Religion functioned as a shared communicative idiom bridging tribal trust and urban fear. (similarity 0.89)
- Rural folk religion reinforces group boundaries through local sacred markers (similarity 0.84)
- Town religion is rules-based while tribal collective oaths express group loyalty (similarity 0.79)
- Religion is historically the primary motivator of prosociality among strangers. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Religion functioned as a shared communicative idiom bridging tribal trust and urban fear.
#contradicts(0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2078 - Coding religion as rule-like law crushes moral freedom and spontaneity.
#corroborates(0.75)