Articles – James Miller

The Transfiguration, by Raphael, c. 1520

September 14, 2017

Transfiguration, Spirituality and Embodiment: Perspectives from Christian and Daoist Scriptures

By: James Miller

变容、属灵与体认: 基督教及道教经典的观点 James Miller. 2016. “Transfiguration, Spirituality and Embodiment: Perspectives from Christian and Daoist Scriptures.” Bijiao jingxue 比较经学 (Journal of Comparative Scripture), 7:9-33. Abstract Biblical and Daoist narratives bear witness a tradition of transfiguration, in which spiritual transformation is revealed through the appearance of the religious practitioner. In the Biblical tradition this occurs in the context […]

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August 18, 2016

China: Landscapes, Cultures, Ecologies, Religions

By: James Miller

James Miller Prepublication draft from Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology edited by Willis Jenkins, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, New York: Routledge 2016, 181-189 As the third largest country in the world, China has a vast geographic diversity: arid deserts and snow-capped mountains of Xinjiang in the far West; the unique landscape of the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau, […]

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January 2, 2016

A Sociedade Taoísta do Brasil e a globalização do Daoismo da Ortodoxia Unitária

By: James Miller

Religare, ISSN: 19826605, v.12, n.2, dezembro de 2015, p.315-343. Tradução: A Sociedade Taoísta do Brasil e a globalização do Daoismo da Ortodoxia Unitária The Daoist Society of Brazil and the Globalization of Orthodox Unity Daoism Daniel M. Murray e James Miller Tradução de Matheus Costa e Fábio Stern Resumo Fora de contexto cultural chinês, o Daoísmo […]

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November 26, 2015

道教与可持续发展

By: James Miller

苗建时（James Miller）加拿大女王大学一、道教概论道教是中国本土的有系统的宗教体系。道家重点关注获得“道”（作为不断变化的宇宙中的生命力不可名状的源头）。在道教2000多年的历史上，实现这一目标的方法虽然经过修正和调整，但大体可以理解为在身体的流体能量、社群和宇宙三者之间进行调整。道教关注内在身体的微妙能量，并且从事于冥想修炼的活动，旨在恢复和增强身体的机能，以获得长寿和精神超越。道家还崇拜等级复杂的神圣权力，包括最高层的三清（道本身的自然化体现）以及许多个人神（曾经是人，但在其生命的轨迹中实现了超越，有时也被理解为不朽）。

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December 27, 2014

Time, and Again, and Forever: The Somatic Experience of Time in Daoist Philosophy and Religion

By: James Miller

Miller, James. 2015. “Time, and Again, and Forever: The Somatic Experience of Time in Daoist Philosophy and Religion.” KronoScope 15.1 (Spring 2015). In Press. Abstract Rather than considering time from a comparative philosophical perspective, the essay discusses the lived experience of time in the Esoteric Biography of Perfected Purple Yang, a Daoist hagiography associated with the 4th […]

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April 3, 2014

Ecology, Aesthetics and Daoist Body Cultivation

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 the uncorrected draft. 中文翻译：生态学，美学与道教修炼 Abstract The Daoist religious tradition offers a wide repertoire of body […]

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October 1, 2013

Is Green the New Red? The Role of Religion in Creating a Sustainable China

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 of a “green Daoism” differs, however, from both traditional Chinese and modern Western interpretations of the affinity […]

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August 16, 2013

Nature, Impersonality, and Absence in the Theology of Highest Clarity Daoism

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 The Way of Highest Clarity: Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval China (Magdalena, NM: Three Pines […]

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August 14, 2013

Monitory Democracy and Ecological Civilization in the People’s Republic of China

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 sense can religious values and institutions in China be seen as elements of civil society […]

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Daoism and Development

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 the goal of obtaining the Dao, or Way, the unnameable source of generative vitality in […]

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