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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor
Lauren Coyle Rosen is the author of Fires of Gold, Hannibal Lokumbe (with Hannibal Lokumbe), and The Spirit of Ani (with Ani Di Franco), as well as six volumes of poetry.
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