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Law in Light: Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana
Lauren Coyle Rosen
Law in Light: Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana
Lauren Coyle Rosen
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.
262 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
To be released | November 12, 2024 |
ISBN13 | 9780520397064 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 252 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 544 g |
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