Her books include In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit and Hell Without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative. Pierce is a member of the Modern Language Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Historical Association. In 2016, Pierce served as the founding director of the Center for African American Religious Life at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Her research focuses on literature and religion, womanist theology, and African American religions. Pierce, a Century columnist, is currently the dean at Howard Divinity School-the first woman to lead the 153-year old institution.
It's time to get to know that God.Womanist theologian Yolanda Pierce will be the next dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. The Divine has been showing up at the kitchen tables of Black women for a long time. Pierce tells stories that center the experiences of those living on the underside of history, teasing out the tensions of race, spirituality, trauma, freedom, resistance, and memory.Ī grandmother's theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. Now, in this book, Pierce reckons with that tradition, building an everyday womanist theology rooted in liberating scriptures, experiences in the Black church, and truths from Black women's lives. Born on a former cotton plantation and having fled the terrors of the South, Pierce's grandmother raised her in the faith inherited from those who were enslaved. In a world hostile to Black women's bodies and spirits, they had to be. The church mothers who raised Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity, were busily focused on her survival.
What if the most steadfast faith you'll ever encounter comes from a Black grandmother?
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