August 16, 2013
By: James Miller
In June this year Ian Johnson published a major report in the New York Times on China's plans to urbanize 250 million citizens over the next decade or so. This drive continues the decades-long story of China's conversion from an...
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By: James Miller
James Miller. 2013. Nature, Impersonality, and Absence in the Theology of Highest Clarity Daoism. Pp. 665-676 in Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities, edited by J. Diller and A. Kasher. Dordrecht: Springer. Excerpted and slightly adapted with the author’s permission from...
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August 14, 2013
By: James Miller
James Miller. 2013. "Monitory Democracy and Ecological Civilization in the People's Republic of China." Pp. 137-148 in Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy edited by Lars Trägårdh, Nina Witoszek and Bron Taylor. Oxford: Berghahn Books. Introduction In what...
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By: James Miller
James Miller. 2013. "Daoism and Development." Pp. 113-123 in Handbook of Research on Development and Religion edited by Matthew Clarke. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. Overview of Daoism Daoism, also spelled Taoism, is China’s organized, indigenous religious system. Daoists take as their focus...
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August 12, 2013
By: James Miller
James Miller. 2013. "Authenticity, Sincerity and Spontaneity: The Mutual Implication of Nature and Religion in China and the West." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 25: 283-307 Abstract Fundamental approaches to ethics and morality in both China and the...
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By: James Miller
James Miller gives a fifteen minute presentation on Daoism, Ecology and the Journey of the Universe at the Chautauqua Institution, New York in June 2013. The presentation offers a response to the film Journey of the Universe by Brian Swimme...
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August 10, 2013
By: James Miller
James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu and Peter van der Veer, eds. 2014. Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China. New York: Routledge. This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate...
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