{"product_id":"making-promises-pamela-klassen-9781487542078","title":"Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-Jurisdictional and Multi-Religious Societies","description":"How 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pamela Klassen,Benjamin Berger,Monique Scheer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487542070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487542078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Pamela Klassen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47427340632319,"sku":"9781487542078","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ab82c53-f3be-4e4c-b422-907978e2f49d.jpg?v=1761578956","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-promises-pamela-klassen-9781487542078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}