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[Basic Trust. Exploring a Border Phenomenon] To talk about basic trust is easy. It is more difficult, however, to describe what it means to have basic trust. So far we have succeeded only rudimentarily to verify this phenomenon empirically and to grasp it conceptually. Despite this vagueness we have become used to talking about basic trust both in everyday life and in scholarly discourse. But what does it mean? Don't we have to distinguish between different forms of basic trust? Between confidence in the world and in life on the one hand and a child's universal trust on the other, or the basal trust that we grant each other in our daily communication? And what is the relationship between basic trust and trust in God? This study addresses these questions from different angles. It launches an illuminating discourse between philosophical, theological, sociological and psychological perspectives. Terminological and hermeneutical approaches are complemented by the attempt to describe basic trust empirically. Documented in the present volume, this research project of the Swiss National Science Foundation (Zurich University, 2009-2012) closes a significant gap in the field. In addition to the two editors, other contributors are Emil Angehrn (Basle), Brigitte Boothe (Zurich), Martin Endress (Trier), Arne Gron (Copenhagen), Petra Meibert (Bochum) and Johannes Michalak (Hildesheim).

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