University Of Toronto Press Higher Education Division: 213 books

Cover of The Religions of Canadians
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

The Religions of Canadians is a book about religions and the making of Canada. Drawing on the expert knowledge and personal insights of scholars in history, the social sciences, and the phenomenology of religion, separate chapters introduce the beliefs and practices of nine religious traditions, some...
Cover of Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance

Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance

Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry

by Vincent Lyon-Callo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004

Why did the rate of homelessness remain at significant levels while the US economy was supposedly booming and hundreds of millions of dollars were spent in the homeless sheltering industry? Drawing upon five years of ethnographic fieldwork in a homeless shelter in Northampton, Massachusetts, Lyon-Callo...
Cover of The Bedevilment of Elizabeth Lorentz
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2018

Elizabeth Lorentz was a young maid servant in early modern Germany who believed herself to be tormented by the devil, and who was eventually brought to trial in 1667. The trial grappled with the question of whether Lorentz was a willing accomplice of the devil or suffering from melancholy as a result...
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