{"product_id":"making-promises-oaths-treaties-and-covenants-in-multi-jurisdictional-and-multi-religious-societies-paperback-softback-9781487542078","title":"Making Promises; Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487542078","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking Promises\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePamela Klassen (Author), Benjamin L. Berger (Author), Monique Scheer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487542078\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 December 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e380 pages, 47 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.72 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow should we understand promises as public, private, or political commitments? What are the conditions for promise-making in religiously diverse societies with competing jurisdictions and sovereignties? \u003cem\u003eMaking Promises\u003c\/em\u003e addresses how promises are made meaningful not only through law, but also through appeals to transcendent powers across diverse traditions. \u003cbr\u003eEach contribution in this volume takes a closer look at specific kinds of promises: oaths, treaties, and covenants. The chapters reveal much about the nature of promises in multi-religious and multi-jurisdictional societies, and with contributions from scholars of religious studies, Indigenous studies, law, history, politics, and anthropology, this volume represents a comparative conversation on the making of promises. It pays close attention to Indigenous histories, visions, and conceptions of justice; comparative law within and across settler colonial states; interactions among religions and secularisms; and the ongoing importance of material culture, ritual, and emotion for these practices.\u003cbr\u003eAt a time of human-caused environmental devastation and political upheaval, when making promises for the future seems both urgent and futile, this volume shows that promises have long been made and unmade, kept and broken, in ways that successive generations need to acknowledge and take up anew.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePromising Practices: A Preface\u003cbr\u003ePamela E. Klassen, Monique Scheer, and Benjamin L. Berger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Fragmented Promises, Pentimento \u0026amp; the Salvage Paradigm  \u003cbr\u003e    Jeffery Hewitt \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart I:  Promises in Place: A Great Lakes Pentimento \u003cbr\u003e    Pamela E. Klassen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.  Remembering, Forgetting and the Telling of Stories: Land and Commemoration in the   \u003cbr\u003e    Aftermath of the American Revolution \u003cbr\u003e    Elizabeth Elbourne\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.  “The Culture of the Soil”: Agriculture, Improvement, and Settler Colonial Landscapes of  \u003cbr\u003e     Nineteenth-Century Manitoulin Island\u003cbr\u003e     Kate Stoehr\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.  Between Gratitude and Guilt: The Promise of a Better Life in a Settler Colony for Racialized Refugees \u003cbr\u003eSujith Xavier\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart II:  The Weight of the Promise: Material–Immaterial Practices \u003cbr\u003e    Monique Scheer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.  Making Promises to the Shogun: Spinoza on the Dutch United East Indian Company in Japan\u003cbr\u003ePooyan Tamimi Arab\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.  Longing and Belonging in France and Algeria: The Promise of Amel’s Chedda \u003cbr\u003e    Jennifer Selby\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.  Quid pro Quo? Egyptian Papyri Distributions and the Bureaucracy of a Promise \u003cbr\u003e    Gregory Fewster\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.  Covenant, Torah, and the Failed Promise of Jewish Museums \u003cbr\u003e    Yaniv Feller\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart III:  The Oath, the Law, and the “Sense of Religion” \u003cbr\u003e    Benjamin L. Berger\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.  “However Honestly Meant”: Chinese Australians and Truth-Telling in Colonial Victorian    \u003cbr\u003e      Courts \u003cbr\u003e      Catherine Evans\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.  An Oath on the Big Book: Oaths and Examinations in American Codes of Procedure \u003cbr\u003eKellen Funk\u003cbr\u003e10.  Ceremonial Promises: Oath, Treaties, and the Transformation of Christian Privilege in Canada \u003cbr\u003ePamela E. Klassen and Isabel Klassen-Marshall\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Promises That Make Us Who We Are \u003cbr\u003eJeremy Webber\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595786613016,"sku":"9781487542078","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-promises-oaths-treaties-and-covenants-in-multi-jurisdictional-and-multi-religious-societies-paperback-softback-9781487542078","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}