Divining Sisters: Reflections on an Experience of Divination by a Priestess of the Ausar Auset Society

Abstract

This essay, taken from a larger PhD study, seeks to outline the eclectic and embodied spirituality of Black, African Caribbean women, which lies outside the framework of normative Christianity. This essay demonstrates the ongoing struggle of anti-hegemonic resistance against the dominant forces of Euro-American imperial and postcolonial imposition. This struggle against White colonial power and their concomitant religio-cultural norms finds expression in liberative modes of spirituality that have consistently provided a bulwark against the imposition of fixed notions of Black servitude. This essay offers a challenging, creative and innovative theory of Black, African Caribbean women's spirituality that seeks to de-stabilize the historic notions of Euro-American traditional Christian theism and provides fresh and combative thinking to aid the ongoing quest and thirst for full freedom for all Black women.