The paper addresses and weighs the possibilities and usefulness of an intercultural approach to the associative phenomenon, particularly within the context of majority rule. It focuses on the cultural and religious matrices underlying majority rule as they are deduced from its historical and functional origin and from its legal experience. The Author aims to investigate the peculiarities of the contexts underlying the differing views on the principle and, at the same time, to highlight the common elements that could allow corresponding traditions to be reconciled within the framework of a unitary conceptual and regulatory framework. Finally, some applicative hypotheses are proposed with a view towards conciliation between differing cultural/religious approaches to rule and equality.