Overview

Law in Light is a groundbreaking book on the resurgence and transformation of Akan path spiritual communities in the United States and Ghana. Drawing on extensive collaborative ethnographic research, the book offers powerful portraits of priestesses, priests, and others on their spiritual journeys, in their ancestral reconnections, and in their everyday lives. The book spotlights a queen mother, shrine elders, priests, and priestesses of a prominent shrine house in Maryland, as well as leaders at a legendary Asuo Gyebi source shrine in Ghana. In exploring worlds of healing, empowerment, and justice, Lauren Coyle Rosen argues for the importance of two novel theoretical concepts, which she calls copresent jurisdictions and constellations of subjectivity. The book urges a broader retheorization of alternative spiritual orders within contemporary theopolitical, cosmopolitical, and postjuristocratic debates.

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Author:   Lauren Coyle Rosen
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520397088

ISBN 10:   0520397088
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   15 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1. Okomfohema Nana Akua Amoabaa Botwe I, Queen Mother and Chief Priestess 2. Ankobeahema Nana Amoabaa Atei Asiedu, Elder and High Priestess 3. Several Young Priestesses of the House: Call, Initiation, Graduation, and Pathfinders 4. Nana Osofo Yaw Nkrumah: Law, Order, Vitality, and Health in Shrine Governance 5. Okomfohene Nana Yaw Yirenkyi Opare Gyebi I, Chief Priest at the Asuo Gyebi Shrine in Larteh, Kubease 6. Okomfopanyin Nana Afoah Baakang, Eldest Priestess at the Asuo Gyebi Shrine in Larteh, Kubease 7. Okomfokese Nana Baakan Okukuranpon Yirenkyiwa, Chief Priestess Conclusion: Revitalized Visions and Transatlantic Copresence in Akan Spirituality Acknowledgments  Notes  Bibliography  Index

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Lauren Coyle Rosen is the author of Fires of Gold, Hannibal Lokumbe (with Hannibal Lokumbe), and The Spirit of Ani (with Ani DiFranco), as well as six volumes of poetry.

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