In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit (audio)

by Yolanda Pierce

Publisher:

christianaudio.com

, 2021

Overview

In this book, Yolanda Pierce builds an everyday womanist theology rooted in liberating scriptures, experiences in the Black church, and truths from Black women’s lives. 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. What if the most steadfast faith you’ll ever encounter comes from a Black grandmother? The church mothers who raised Yolanda Pierce, dean of Howard University School of Divinity, were busily focused on her survival. In a world hostile to Black women’s bodies and spirits, they had to be. 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. 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. 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. A grandmother’s theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. The Divine has been showing up at the kitchen tables of Black women for a long time. It’s time to get to know that God.

Product Details

• Title: In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit (audio)
• Author: Yolanda Pierce
• Publisher: christianaudio.com
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Audio
• Subjects: Religion › Christian Living--Personal Memoirs *; Religion › Christian Living--Social Issues; Social Science › Ethnic Studies--African American Studies; Social Science › Women's Studies; Christian memoir; Christian women’s stories; read by the author
• ISBNs: 9781545916919, 1545916918
• Resource ID: LLS:9781545916919
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-01-24T23:04:11Z

About Yolanda Pierce

Yolanda Pierce is the Elmer G. Homrighausen Associate Professor of African American Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Liaison with the Princeton University Center for African American Studies. Pierce earned her M.A. in English and African American Studies and her Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. A member of an Assemblies of God church, she serves on the executive committee for the Society of Literature and Religion and is a member of the Modern Language Association and the American Academy of Religion. Her area of research lies in African American literature and culture (spiritual and slave narratives, memoirs and autobiographies, and religious writing), religious studies (Black church traditions, womanist theology, and contemporary Black thought), and nineteenth-century American literature (race, religion, and early American culture). She teaches courses in African American religious history, womanist theology, and literature and religion.