September 25, 2009
By: James Miller
Over the past sixty years China has achieved something close to a miracle when compared with other developing nations. It by and large manages to feed, educate, house and employ its own people. It is not involved in futile and...
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August 25, 2009
By: James Miller
Much intellectual discourse about Chinese philosophical and religious views of nature focuses on ideals such as harmony between humans and the natural world, or "forming one body with heaven and earth" (tian ren he yi). But when it comes to...
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June 26, 2009
By: James Miller
In today's Christian Science Monitor, I published an op-ed piece that ties together some of the themes that I've been blogging about lately: Is democracy the best vehicle to ensure sustainable development? What is the Confucian view of the human...
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June 17, 2009
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_248" align="alignright" width="200" caption="A Taiji quan performance at a Daoist temple in Sichuan"][/caption] There is hardly a truth more sacred to the contemporary American imagination than that religion must be free from interference by the state and that the...
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April 3, 2009
By: James Miller
I have just finished teaching my undergraduate course on religion and the environment. Most of the students are in engineering or environmental science, and the course fulfills a humanities requirement for them. It's been fascinating teaching scientists about religion, as...
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February 23, 2009
By: James Miller
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Sustainability Salute from the Green Olympic Volunteers"][/caption] I'm teaching a course in religion and the environment this term, and my students are preparing to debate this very question: is democracy good for sustainability? By way of...
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January 19, 2009
By: James Miller
Here's three reasons why China's traditional religions and cultures will play an increasingly important role in the East Asian political scene. In mainland China, more people than ever are turning to religion. An interview with Arrianna Liu, who works in...
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December 30, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller In a recent article entitled Two Big China Stories You Missed This Year Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a respected professor of Chinese history at UC Irvine, highlighted the rehabilitation of Confucius as one of the most significant trends in contemporary China....
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December 22, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller Christmas, as we all know, is the grand festival of the religion of consumerism. We pay homage to our saviour Santa Claus in the vast cathedral of the shopping mall. There we make a sizeable donation to...
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