April 3, 2014
By: James Miller
James Miller. 2014. "Ecology, Aesthetics and Daoist Body Cultivation." Pp. 225–244 in Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought edited by J. Baird Callicott and James McRae. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Please note that the text below is...
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February 28, 2014
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_691" align="alignright" width="200"] Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought[/caption] Announcing a fantastic new resource for environmental philosophy, shortly to be published by SUNY press. There is a great section on China including new essays by scholars working on...
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October 1, 2013
By: James Miller
James Miller. 2013. "Is Green the New Red? The Role of Religion in Creating a Sustainable China." Nature and Culture 8.3: 249-264. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2013.080302 Abstract The Chinese Daoist Association has embarked upon an ambitious agenda to promote Daoism as China’s “green religion”. This new construction...
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September 7, 2013
By: James Miller
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] Students from Fudan University and Queen's University at their first orientation session[/caption] Below us the text of a speech I gave at the orientation day for the Queen's-Fudan semester in Shanghai program. Thank you for inviting...
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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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