Books
Harris, Melanie L. 2017. Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths. Ecology and Justice, an Orbis Series on Integral Ecology. Maryknoll: ORBIS.
Harris, Melanie L. and Kate M. Ott, Faith, Feminism, and Scholarship, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Harris, Melanie L., Gifts of Virtue, Alice Walker, and Womanist Ethics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2010.
Journal Articles
Harris, Melanie L. “Reshaping the ear: honorable listening and study of ecowomanist and ecofeminist scholarship for feminist discourse.” Journal of feminist studies in religion 33, no. 2 (2017): 158-162.
Harris, Melanie L. Guest Editor, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology Special Issue: Ecowomanism: Earth Honoring Faiths (Brill, 2016).
Harris, Melanie L. “Ecowomanism: Earth Honoring Faiths Introduction” in Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture and Ecology Special Issue: Ecowomanism: Earth Honoring Faiths. Guest editor, Melanie L. Harris, Series editor Chris Chappell. Boston: Brill Publishing, 2016: 1-3.
Harris, Melanie L. “Ecowomanism” in Worldviews: Global Religious, Culture and Ecology Special Issue: Ecowomanism: Earth Honoring Faiths. Guest editor, Melanie L. Harris, Series editor Chris Chappell. Boston: Brill Publishing, 2016: 5-14
Harris, Melanie L. “In the Company of Friends: Womanist Readings of Buddhist Poems” in Buddhist-Christian Studies, Hawai’i: The University of Hawai’i Press Volume 36, 2016: 3-8.
Harris, Melanie L. “Ecowomanism: Black Women, Religion, and the Environment“ in The Black Scholar. New York: Routledge Publishing, Volume 46, 2016: 27-39
Harris, Melanie L. “Roundtable Women of Color in the Religious Studies Classroom: Silent Scripts and Contested Spaces” by Melanie L. Harris, Carolyn Medine and Helen Rhee in Journal of ‘Feminist Studies in Religion. Indiana: The Indiana University Press, Volume 32, 2016: 110-114 5
Harris, Melanie L. “Alice Walker and the emergence of ecowomanist spirituality.” Spirit and Nature: The Study of Christian Spirituality in a Time of Ecological Urgency 220 (2011): 220.
Hill, Jack A., Melanie L. Harris, Hjamil Martinez-Vazquez. “Fighting the Elephant in the Room: Recognizing and Dismantling Systems of Advantage in U.S. Higher Education.” Teaching Theology and Religion 1 (2009): 12 – 16. 6
Harris, Melanie L., “Womanist Humanism: A Deeper Look.” CrossCurrents 57 (Fall 2007): 391 – 403.
Harris, Melanie L.,“Saving the Womanist Self: Womanist Soteriology and the Gospel of Mary.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 58 (October 2004): 177 – 180.
Book Chapters
Daniels III, David D., Geevarghese Coorilos, Elizabeth Theokritoff, Rubén Rosario Rodríguez, Sue Rakoczy, Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, Luis Martínez Andrade et al. “9. World Christianity and Ecology: Ecowomanism.” In World Christianity and Ecological Theologies, pp. 197-210. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2024.
Harris, Melanie L. “Place and Space: Gathering Wisdom from the Life Work of Proto-Ecowomanist Fannie Lou Hamer.” The Place of Story and the Story of Place 3 (2023): 121.
Harris, Melanie L. “Ecowomanist Wisdom Encountering Earth and Spirit” in Planetary Solidarity: A Global Feminist Theology of Climate Justice edited by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Hilda Koster, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press.
Harris, Melanie L. “New Modes of Healing: Connecting Earth Justice and Social Justice in Ecowomanism” in Womanism Rising: Womanist Studies edited by Layli Maparyan, Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Harris, Melanie L. “Buddhist Resources for Womanist Reflection” in Buddhist-Christian Studies. Hawai’i: The University of Hawai’i Press, Volume 34, 2014: 107-116.
Harris, Melanie L. “Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theologies: Fierce Compassion as a Mode of Justice” in Buddhist Responses to Globalization. Leah Kalmanson and James Mark Shields. New York: Lexington Books, 2014: 99-106.
Harris, Melanie L. “Womanist Spirituality: Legacies of Freedom” in Contemporary Perspectives On Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora. Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Carolyn M. Jones Medine. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2015: 146-160.
Harris, Melanie L. ““Womanist Wholeness and Community” in Faith, Feminism, and Scholarship. Melanie L. Harris and Kate M. Ott. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: 128-141.
Harris, Melanie L., “Alice Walker Ecowomanist Spirituality.” Spirit and Nature. Tim Hessel-Robinson and Ray Maria McNamara. Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2011: 220-236
Harris, Melanie L. “African American Religion and the Environment.” African American Religious Cultures. Anthony B. Pinn. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2009: 491-498.
Harris, Melanie L. “Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: Meditation for the Recovery of the Womanist Self ” in Buddhist-Christian Studies. Rita M. Gross and Terry C. Muck. Hawai’i: The University of Hawai’i Press, Volume 32, 2012: 67-72.
Harris, Melanie L. “Moral Vision: An Ecowomanist Vision” in Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources, James Samuel Logan and Marcia Y. Riggs. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012: 189-194
Harris, Melanie L., “Womanist Humanism: A New Hermeneutic.” Deeper Shades of Purple: Charting Twenty Years of Womanist Approaches in Religion and Society. Ed. Stacey Floyd-Thomas. New York: New York University Press, 2006: 211 – 225.
Presentations
Harris, Melanie L. “Teaching toward Eco justice: Integrating Womanist Justice and Environmental Concern in the Classroom, Religious Studies News, Spotlight on Theological Education, March 2013 www.aar.org or rsnonline.org.