The Body in Grief
Reclaiming embodied mourning against theologies that spiritualize away the physical reality of loss.
Now available · Wipf & Stock, 2026
Re-Membering Ourselves
A Womanist Invitation for Befriending Grief as a Spiritual Practice
Dr. Jamie Eaddy
Wipf & Stock · 2026
A womanist invitation for befriending grief as a spiritual practice — reclaiming the body, the community, and the sacred in the work of mourning. Drawing on womanist scholarship, Black liberation theology, and the lived experiences of grieving communities, this book insists that grief is not a problem to be solved — it is a sacred site of resistance, remembrance, and reclamation.
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About the Book
Re-Membering Ourselves emerges from years of accompanying grieving communities — in churches, in classrooms, in living rooms, and at gravesides. It is a book born from the conviction that Black and marginalized communities deserve grief theologies that honor the fullness of their mourning, not theologies that rush them toward resolution.
The title is intentional: re-membering — with a hyphen — is the act of putting the body back together. Of reclaiming what has been scattered. Of insisting that the grieving person is still whole, still worthy, still held.
This book is for pastoral caregivers, grief companions, theologians, and anyone who has ever sat with someone in the dark and wondered what to say.
Key Themes
Death-Dealing Systems
Naming the structural and theological forces that compound grief in Black and marginalized communities.
Communal Mourning
Grief as a communal act — the village as the unit of healing, not just the individual.
Womanist Resistance
Drawing on womanist theology to insist that to grieve is to resist, and to mourn is to remember.