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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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 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. 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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 paperback, \u003ci\u003eIn My Grandmother's House\u003c\/i\u003efollows Pierce as she 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. The paperback features a new readers' guide, written by the author, that is useful for individual reflection and group discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA grandmother's theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. 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Using autobiographical narratives, the book shows how black writers transformed the earthly hell of slavery into a \"New Jerusalem,\" a place they could call home.  Yolanda Pierce insists that for African Americans, accounts of spiritual conversion revealed \"personal transformations with far-reaching community effects. A personal experience of an individual's relationship with God is transformed into the possibility of liberating an entire community.\" The process of conversion could result in miraculous literacy, \"callings\" to preach, a renewed resistance to the slave condition, defiance of racist and sexist conventions, and communal uplift.  These stories by five of the earliest antebellum spiritual writers--George White, John Jea, David Smith, Solomon Bayley, and Zilpha Elaw--create a new religious language that merges Christian scripture with distinct retellings of biblical stories, with enslaved people of African descent at their center. Showing the ways their language exploits the levels of meaning of words like master, slavery, sin, and flesh, Pierce argues that the narratives address the needs of those who attempted to transform a foreign god and religion into a personal and collective system of beliefs. The earthly \"hell without fires\"--one of the writer's characterizations of everyday life for those living in slavery--could become a place where an individual could be both black and Christian, and religion could offer bodily and psychological healing.   Pierce presents a complex and subtle assessment of the language of conversion in the context of slavery. 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We can turn away, avert our gaze. We can make a spectacle of suffering. Or like the doubting disciple who longed to touch Jesus's side, we can acquaint ourselves with the wounds: both the story they tell and the healing they prefigure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Wounds Are the Witness\u003c\/i\u003e, Yolanda Pierce, dean of Vanderbilt University Divinity School and author of \u003ci\u003eIn My Grandmother's House\u003c\/i\u003e, weaves together her own memories, vignettes from Black life, and scenes from scripture, especially the passion of Christ. To work for liberation in a broken world, we cannot look away from crucified flesh. Bones from the Middle Passage, GI Bill benefits denied to Black veterans, women inmates shackled while giving birth: we must take all such wounds seriously. They testify to both the pain and the faith of a people.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith the lyrical eye of a poet and the moral precision of a preacher, Pierce casts readers into the astounding story of God's healing. From the curative powers of a spiderweb to the work of justice in history, politics, medicine, higher education, and the Black church, Pierce asks: Where are the remedies for the battered and broken? What does accountability look like? Is there any cure?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHealing takes time, Pierce writes, and even the wounds of the risen Christ do not immediately close. When the wounds become the witness, we find a faith reimagined and a hope transfigured. 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