September 2, 2010
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_374" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Laozi Statue on Maoshan"][/caption] In May this year I had the opportunity to visit Maoshan (Mt. Mao) a Daoist mountain sacred to the Shangqing (Highest Clarity) tradition of Daoism that I studied in my most recent...
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August 18, 2010
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_146" align="alignright" width="300"] The International Taoist Tai Chi Society celebrates its fortieth anniversary at Dundas Square, Toronto / Rick Eglinton / Toronto Star[/caption] For Danny Simmons, a Toronto musician and sound designer, Taoist tai chi has been a life-saver....
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August 16, 2010
By: James Miller
James Miller. 2010. Religion, Nature and Modernization in China. Pp. 107-122 in Technology, Trust and Religion: Roles of Religion in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life edited by Willem B. Drees. Leiden: Leiden University Press. One of most important concepts...
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July 19, 2010
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_370" align="alignright" width="150" caption="A solar-powered light on the road to Maoshan, Jiangsu, China."][/caption] In Sunday's New York Times, Wayne Arnold published a column on the perennial topic "rethinking the measure of growth." The story concerns attempts by Asian economists...
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June 25, 2010
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_534" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Photograph taken during the liturgy at the Templo da Transparência Sublime, Rio de Janeiro, December 2009."][/caption] In a Wall Street Journal blog today, Christopher Carothers asks, "Is Daoism is losing its way?" He writes: Today, Buddhism...
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June 8, 2010
By: James Miller
I was in LA last weekend to attend the Sixth Annual Conference on Daoist Studies which was organized by my former teacher, Livia Kohn, and LMU Professor Robin Wang. The conference drew the usual mix of academics and practitioners (which...
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February 2, 2010
By: James Miller
What do you do, as a Chinese film board, when the Hollywood science fiction film Avatar smashes Chinese box office records in its first three weeks in theaters, when online chat sites are buzzing about the uncanny parallels between the...
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November 5, 2009
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_309" align="alignright" width="300" caption="James Miller attending the Laozi Conference in the Great Hall of the People"][/caption] I'm at the First Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture, which is taking place this week in Beijing. The Summit is the work...
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November 1, 2009
By: James Miller
Interview with an American training to be a Daoist priest: Center for Spirituality and Sustainability at S. Illinois U http://bit.ly/1JOMfQ #
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October 25, 2009
By: James Miller
An exhibition introducing the Taoist traditions of ethnic people in northern Vietnam opened in Hanoi on October 21. http://bit.ly/3LopcJ #
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