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June 26, 2012

green spirituality and the limits to modernity

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...
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June 17, 2009

what is freedom of religion for?

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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February 23, 2009

is democracy good for sustainability?

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 8, 2009

what has become of china’s eco-cities?

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_194" align="alignright" width="300" caption="An artist's rendering of the Dongtan eco-city"][/caption] There has been much news lately that the project to design a massive eco-city on Chongming Island near Shanghai may finally have fizzled out. The project, designed by the...
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