December 26, 2014
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...
Read the full post »
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...
Read the full post »
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,...
Read the full post »
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...
Read the full post »
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...
Read the full post »
May 25, 2013
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_646" align="alignright" width="300"] A view over the Forbidden City in Beijing[/caption] In a recent column in Nature, Qiang Wang argues that responsibility for transforming China's environment lies with its citizens. He points to several instances in which local protests...
Read the full post »
June 26, 2012
By: James Miller
In an online report on Religious Innovation for Sustainable Future (no longer available), Nina Witoszek (Oslo University) surveys a "pastoral renaissance" taking place across the globe. [caption id="attachment_619" align="alignright" width="300"] Image from www.ceres21.org[/caption] This renaissance, she declares, is "not just...
Read the full post »
June 7, 2012
By: James Miller
A recent news story on Reuters, headlined Thou Shalt Not Launch IPOs, China tells temples, reports that the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) has issued an injunction against temples listing on the stock exchange. SARA official Liu Wei is...
Read the full post »
February 12, 2012
By: James Miller
This term I have the privilege of co-teaching a new seminar course at Queen's (with Emily Hill) on the topic of Green China: Environment, Culture, Politics. The course examines the intersections between religion, culture, politics, and the natural environment in China...
Read the full post »
December 2, 2011
By: James Miller
Should environmentalists support conservation projects that also serve to bolster right wing nationalist agendas? This was one of the questions that was discussed last month at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, in San Francisco. I spoke on...
Read the full post »
