![]() In the preface of your book, you described “grandmother theology” as “a subset of womanist theology.” Please explain the connection between the two. Pierce, who is in her 40s and identifies as a Pentecostal, talked with Religion News Service about what she learned from her grandmother, the kinds of hymns she doesn’t sing and her expectations about the future of the Black church. ![]() “So I’m really trying to shift the discourse about who can do theology and what counts as theological source material.”ĭr. “If the only theology we have is (Martin) Luther or (John) Calvin, then we’re missing how God moves in a world for a group of people who don’t know Luther or Calvin, will never read (their) work nor are interested in the 1500s in which they lived,” she said. “In My Grandmother’s House: Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit” was released Tuesday. The first woman to lead the predominantly Black theological school in its 150-year history has written a book chronicling how that theology stretches back generations before the term was used. Dean Yolanda Pierce of the Howard University School of Divinity has been shaped by, and now teaches, womanist theology, the study of religion through the lens of gender, race and class. ![]()
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