Genovesi subsumed religious faith under interpersonal trust

Evidence

But although faith in the certainty of divine sanction may indeed constitute the ultimate guarantee for trust, in Genovesi’s account of the ‘rational religion’ there is more than a mere suggestion that faith may be subsumed under trust and, and within the sphere of interpersonal relations, the public good come to replace a private God. What is clear is that whatever religion the society embraces — even if it consists simply in believing in the virtues of that society — it must be comprehensible to all those who participate in it; and it must be available for participation. Lack of information destroys trust. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1804

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that any shared belief system—even ‘believing in the virtues of that society’—must be comprehensible and participatory directly parallels the doctor’s wife as sole guarantor of order in Saramago through shared, understandable norms.
• DEFINE: ‘Faith may be subsumed under trust’ clarifies the conceptual relationship between the two.