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Author:   Pamela Klassen ,  Benjamin Berger ,  Monique Scheer
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781487542078

ISBN 10:   1487542070
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   16 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Promising Practices: A Preface Pamela E. Klassen, Monique Scheer, and Benjamin L. Berger Introduction: Fragmented Promises, Pentimento & the Salvage Paradigm      Jeffery Hewitt Part I:  Promises in Place: A Great Lakes Pentimento     Pamela E. Klassen 1.  Remembering, Forgetting and the Telling of Stories: Land and Commemoration in the       Aftermath of the American Revolution     Elizabeth Elbourne 2.  “The Culture of the Soil”: Agriculture, Improvement, and Settler Colonial Landscapes of       Nineteenth-Century Manitoulin Island      Kate Stoehr 3.  Between Gratitude and Guilt: The Promise of a Better Life in a Settler Colony for Racialized Refugees Sujith Xavier Part II:  The Weight of the Promise: Material–Immaterial Practices     Monique Scheer 4.  Making Promises to the Shogun: Spinoza on the Dutch United East Indian Company in Japan Pooyan Tamimi Arab 5.  Longing and Belonging in France and Algeria: The Promise of Amel’s Chedda     Jennifer Selby 6.  Quid pro Quo? Egyptian Papyri Distributions and the Bureaucracy of a Promise     Gregory Fewster 7.  Covenant, Torah, and the Failed Promise of Jewish Museums     Yaniv Feller Part III:  The Oath, the Law, and the “Sense of Religion”     Benjamin L. Berger 8.  “However Honestly Meant”: Chinese Australians and Truth-Telling in Colonial Victorian          Courts       Catherine Evans 9.  An Oath on the Big Book: Oaths and Examinations in American Codes of Procedure Kellen Funk 10.  Ceremonial Promises: Oath, Treaties, and the Transformation of Christian Privilege in Canada Pamela E. Klassen and Isabel Klassen-Marshall Conclusion: Promises That Make Us Who We Are Jeremy Webber

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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). Benjamin L. Berger is an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. 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).

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