Pamela Klassen, Benjamin Berger, Monique Scheer

Gebundenes Buch

Making Promises

Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-Jurisdictional and Multi-Religious Settings

Beschreibung

This book explores the challenges of promise-making in societies characterized by legal and religious pluralism and shaped by colonialism. It examines how promises are sites of meaning and memory, made through spiritual appeals, contestation, and more.

Autor

Pamela E. Klassen is a professor of the study of religion at the University of Toronto, and the author of The Story of Radio Mind: A Missionary’s Journey on Indigenous Land (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Monique Scheer is a professor of historical and cultural anthropology at the University of Tübingen, and the author of Enthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• ISBN-13: 9781487542061
• ISBN-10: 1487542062
• Artikelnr.: 73933864