Law in Light: Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and...

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Lauren Coyle Rosen

Law in Light

Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana...

Lauren Coyle Rosen

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University of California Press
15 October 2024

Ethnic studies; Black & Asian studies; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects; Social & cultural anthropology

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.

By: Lauren Coyle Rosen
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780520397064
ISBN 10: 0520397061
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 15 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.