Books
Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism and Mothering, with Rosemarie Freeney Harding, Durham: Duke University Press, 2015
A Refuge in Thunder: Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000
Essays
“Quantum Exchange: The Diasporic Art of Daniel Minter,” in Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society,” vol 33, no 1, 2021
“The Lithic Imagination and the Tertia: Resources of Art and Literature for the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religion,” in With This Root About my Person: Charles H. Long and New Directions in the Study of Religion, edited by David Carrasco and Jennifer Reid, Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 2020
“Afro-Brazilian Religion, Resistance and Environmental Ethics: A Perspective from Candomblé,” with Valdina Oliveira Pinto, in Ecowomanism: Religion and Ecology, editor, Melanie Harris. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Press, 2017
“Você tem direito à árvore da vida: spirituals afro-americanas e religiões da diáspora,” in
Diáspora Africana nas Américas, editors Isabel Reis and. Solange Pereira da Rocha. Minas
Gerais, Brazil: Fino Traço Editora (Coleção Uniafro/MEC), 2016
"O acolhimento, a cura e os vultos: reflexões sobre a religião e a militancia negra-norte americana do sul dos estados unidos," in Revista Pontos da Interragoção, vol 5, no 2, 2016
"The Lithic Imagination and the Tertia: The Longian Paradigm and Art in the Study of Afro-Atlantic Religion," in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, vol 16, nos 1-2, 2014
"Authority, History and Everyday Mysticism in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton: A Womanist View," in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, vol 12, no 1, 2014
"Water Trouble: The Road, The Boat and the Third Thing: Reflections on Daniel Minter’s Exhibit at Soren Christensen Gallery, New Orleans, May 2014." Statement commissioned by artist for his website. http://www.danielminter.com/Welcome.html
"On Poetry and Mothering: Thoughts on African American Women’s Mysticism," ecclesio.com, February 2013. http://www.ecclesio.com/2013/02/on-poetry-and-mothering-thoughts-on-african-american-women%E2%80%99s-mysticism-rachel-harding/
"Entrevista com Poeta-Militante Sonia Sanchez" in Saberes em Perspectiva: Gênero e diversidade cultural, vol 2, no 2, jan/abr 2012
"There Was a Tree in Starksville" with Rosemarie Freeney Harding, in Sojourners: Faith in Action for Social Justice, February, 2012
"Atlanta’s Mennonite House" with Rosemarie Freeney Harding, in Widening the Circle: Anabaptist Experiments in Discipleship, editor Joanna Shenk, Herald Press, 2011
"Remnants: Mothering, Spirituality and African American Activism" in Faith, Feminism and Scholarship: The Next Generation, eds Kate Ott and Melanie Harris, Palgrave/McMillan, 2011
"You Got a Right to the Tree of Life: African American Spirituals and Religions of the Diaspora," in CrossCurrents, Vol 57, no 2, Summer 2007
"É a Senzala: Slavery, Women and Embodied Knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé," in Women and Religion in the African Diaspora, eds. Barbara Savage and R. Marie Griffith, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
"Hospitality, Haints and Healing: A Southern African American Meaning of Religion," with Rosemarie Freeney Harding, in Deeper Shades of Purple: Womanism in Religion and Society, ed. Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas, New York: NYU Press, 2006
"Singing to Freedom," interview with Bernice Johnson Reagon, conducted with Vincent Harding, in Sojourners, August, 2004: 32-35
"Afro-Brazilian Religions," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition, ed. Lindsey Jones, Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale, 2004
"Radical Hospitality: How Kitchen Table Lessons in Welcome and Respect Helped Sustain the Black Freedom Movement," with Rosemarie Freeney Harding in Sojourners Magazine, July/August 2003
"'What Part of the River You’re In': African American Women in Devotion to Oshun" in Osun Across the Waters: A Yoruba Goddess in Africa and the Americas, eds. Joseph Murphy and Mei Mei Sanford, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001
"Biography, Democracy and Spirit: An Interview with Vincent G. Harding" in Callaloo, vol 20, no 3, 1998
