July 5, 2023
By: James Miller
Last month I led a Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center delegation to three cross-cultural dialogues in Italy. The first, at the Pari Center, brought academics from China, Europe and the USA together for a five days of intensive dialogue...
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January 24, 2018
By: James Miller
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="1065"] Ursula K. Le Guin[/caption] In memory of Ursula K. Le Guin who sadly passed away on Monday, I reproduce below her Dao Song, which she kindly contributed to Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape (Harvard...
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December 26, 2014
By: James Miller
The monumental task that China faces in the 21st century is to create a way of development that does not destroy the ecological foundations for the life and livelihood of its 1.4 billion citizens. This requires a creative leap beyond...
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By: James Miller
The following article was first published in Religion Dispatches on December 15, 2014. In last week’s column here on Religion Dispatches, Ivan Strenski argued strongly against American Academy of Religion President Laurie Zoloth’s call for religious studies to be “interrupted” by a focus on...
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By: James Miller
The following article was first published in Religion Dispatches on December 15, 2014. In last week’s column here on Religion Dispatches, Ivan Strenski argued strongly against American Academy of Religion President Laurie Zoloth’s call for religious studies to be “interrupted” by a focus on...
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November 14, 2014
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_726" align="alignright" width="300"] From an article on China's cancer villages at RT.com[/caption] China doesn't have an "environmental“ problem. The language of "environment" continues the false notion that nature constitutes an objective reality extrinsic to human subjectivity, accessible through science,...
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November 1, 2014
By: James Miller
The monumental task that China faces in the 21st century is to create a way of development that does not destroy the ecological foundations for the life and livelihood of its 1.4 billion citizens. This requires a creative leap beyond...
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May 15, 2014
By: James Miller
New research on the relevance of culture and religion for understanding China's environmental crisis and its transition towards sustainability has just been published in a collection of essays entitled Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China (Routledge 2014). The work, by leading scholars...
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May 12, 2014
By: James Miller
Quick! Picture China's biggest environmental problem. I bet you saw in your mind the polluted skies of Beijing and its citizens wearing face masks as they go to work. The western news media have been filled with alarming stories of China's...
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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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