Resources

Baker-Fletcher, Karen. Sisters of dust, sisters of spirit: Womanist wordings on God and creation. Fortress Press, 1997.

Baker-Fletcher, Karen. “Something or Nothing: An Eco-Womanist Essay on God, Creation, and Indispensability.” In This Sacred Earth, pp. 428-437. Routledge, 2003.

Delveaux, Martin. “Transcending Ecofeminism: Alice Walker, Spiritual Ecowomanism, and Environmental Ethics.” 27 April 2001. Originally available at www.ecofem.org/journal. Now available at https://richardtwine.com/ecofem/walkera.pdf

Riley, Shamara Shantu. “Ecology is a sistah’s issue too: The politics of emergent Afrocentric ecowomanism.” In This Sacred Earth, pp. 412-427. Routledge, 2003.

Smith, Chandra Carmella Taylor. “Earth blood and earthling existence: A methodological study of black women’s writings and their implications for a womanist ecological theology.” PhD diss., Vanderbilt University, 2001.

Simcikova, Karla. “To Live Fully, here and Now: The Healing Vision in the Works of Alice Walker.” Dissertation. Drew University, 2004.

Harris, Melanie L. “Saving the Womanist Self: Womanist Soteriology and the Gospel of Mary.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 58 (October 2004): 177 – 180.

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.

Harris, Melanie L., “Womanist Humanism: A Deeper Look.” CrossCurrents 57 (Fall 2007): 391 – 403.

Few, April L., and Dionne P. Stephens. “African American female adolescent sexuality: Creating change using an ecological-womanist lens.” Pathways of human development: Explorations of change (2009): 75-94.

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

Razak, Arisika. “Her blue body*: A pagan reading of Alice Walker womanism.” Feminist Theology 18, no. 1 (2009): 92-116.

Few, April L., and Dionne P. Stephens. “African American female adolescent sexuality: Creating change using an ecological-womanist lens.” Pathways of human development: Explorations of change (2009): 75-94.

Harris, Melanie L. “African American Religion and the Environment.” African American Religious Cultures. Anthony B. Pinn. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2009: 491-498.

Esposito, Lauren. “A Spiritual Revisioning: Alice Walker from an Ecofeminist Perspective.” Master’s Thesis. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2010

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.

Harris, Melanie L., “Alice Walker Ecowomanist Spirituality.” Spirit and Nature. Tim Hessel-Robinson and Ray Maria McNamara. Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2011: 220-236

Clay, Elonda. “How Does It Feel to be an Environmental Problem? Studying Religion and Ecology in the African Diaspora.” In Inherited Land: The Changing Grounds of Religion and Ecology, edited by Whitney A. Bauman, Richard R. Bohannon II, and Kevin J. O’Brien. Eugene, Or: Wipf & Stock Pub, (2011), pp. 148–70.

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.

Morrison, Debbie-Ann C. “Ecowomanist Endeavors: Race, Gender, and Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Caribbean Women’s Literature.” PhD diss., University of Miami, 2012.

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. “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.

Sadr, Jessica Spain. “Natural anarchism and ecowomanism: Crafting coalition-based ecological praxis.” Green Theory and Praxis 7 (2013): 17-25.

Pu, Xiumei. Imagining the Decolonial Spirit: Ecowomanist Literature and Criticism in the Chinese Diaspora. University of Minnesota, 2013.

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.

Hasanthi, Dhavaleswarapu Ratna. “Ecowomanism in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple.” Veda’Journal of English Language and Literature 2 (2015): 2

Maparyan, Layli. “Seeds of light, flowers of power, fruits of change: ecowomanism as spiritualized ecological praxis.” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 20, no. 1 (2016): 48-63.

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

Betancourt, Sofía. “Between Dishwater and the River: Toward an Ecowomanist Methodology.” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 20, no. 1 (2016): 64-75.

Razak, Arisika. “Sacred women of Africa and the African diaspora: A womanist vision of black women’s bodies and the African sacred feminine.” International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 35, no. 1 (2016): 14.

Tyler, Shakara, and Aleya Fraser. “Womanism and agroecology: an intersectional praxis seed keeping as acts of political warfare.” In Emergent possibilities for global sustainability, pp. 19-30. Routledge, 2016.

Bodunde, Charles A., and Saeedat B. Aliyu. “Environmental Sustainability: African Womanist Response in Ojaide’s The Activist.” Matatu 48, no. 2 (2016): 285-300.

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

Razak, Arisika. “The Divine Feminist: A Diversity of Perspectives That Honor Our Mothers’ Gardens by Integrating Spirituality and Social Justice.” Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary & Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research, & Praxis 13, no. 1 (2017).

Clay, Elonda. “Backyard Gardens as Sacred Spaces: An Ecowomanist Spiritual Ecology.” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Nature: The Elements (2018): 11.

Krishnan, Asha. “Nature, the Cathedral of the Future: An Eco-Womanist Reading of Alice Walker.” Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture 4, no. 2 (2019).

Hylton, Christina Patricia. “Reimaging Black women’s relationship to land: cultivating land and community.” PhD diss., University of Georgia, 2019.

Baker-Fletcher, Karen. “The Holy Spirit and Incarnational Living: Ecowomanist Reflections.” Modern Believing 63, no. 4 (2022): 389-398.

Baker-Fletcher, Karen. “Creator, Creation, and Gender.” In The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics, pp. 18-30. Routledge, 2023.

Betancourt, Sofía. Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

Karon, Alexis K. “Ecowomanism: A solution to climate and social injustice.” (2020).

Roberts-Gregory, Frances. “Climate justice in the wild n’dirty south.” Mapping gendered ecologies: Engaging with and beyond Ecowomanism and ecofeminism (2021): 125-147.

Harris, Faith B., and Kendyl Crawley Crawford. “A womanist and interfaith response to climate change.” Religion, Sustainability, and Place: Moral Geographies of the Anthropocene (2021): 355-381.

Powell, Pressley. “Navigating Ecofeminist and Womanist Readings in the Works of Jesmyn Ward.” (2021).

Gaál-Szabó, Péter. “Ecowomanism, Memory, and the Sacred.” BAS British and American Studies 29, no. 29 (2023): 281-291.

Waite, Kimi. “(Re) constructing environmental history: Excavating ecomemory with ecowomanist and intersectional AsianCrit framings for eco-justice pedagogical praxis.” Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy (2022): 1-22.

Werbanowska, Marta. “Eco-Justice as Womanist Practice in Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry.” In New Criticism and Pedagogical Directions for Contemporary Black Women Writers, pp. 251-278. Lexington Books, 2022.

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

Herles, Cecilia. “Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and Beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism by K. Melchor Quick Hall and Gwyn Kirk.” Ethics & the Environment 28, no. 1 (2023): 97-103.

Mariita, Pacificah Moraa. “Womanist Ecologies: Exploring Nature and Female Empowerment in Wangari Maathai’s Memoir Unbowed and Selected African American Women Writers.” Master’s thesis, Youngstown State University, 2024.

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. “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, 2025.