Law in Light : Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana / Lauren Coyle Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coyle Rosen, Lauren, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spirituality--United States.

Spirituality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780520397095

0520397096

OCLC:

1456758543