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

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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.

Author(s)
Lauren Coyle Rosen
Publication Year
2024
Publication date
October 15, 2024
Pages
251
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
ISBN
9780520397088
Dimensions
6.0 × 0.7 × 9.0 in
Weight
0.75 lb

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