Category Archives: Speaking

James Miller speaks at University of Buffalo on October 25, 2016

October 17th, 2016

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China’s Green Religion

October 25, 5:00 pm
120 Clemens Hall, University of Buffalo North Campus
Free and Open to the Public

As China charts a path towards an “ecological civilization,” and a rise to global superpower status, it is in the process of creating a new and uniquely Chinese form of modernity. This form of modernity includes economic development and rapid urbanization, but with lower carbon intensity and fewer environmental costs. It also includes a new dialog with China’s traditions, including the rehabilitation of traditional Chinese forms of culture and religion. How are these two aspects of the new Chinese modernity related? Can China’s rich cultural traditions inform its goals of a peaceful economic development while preserving the environment? This presentation focuses on Daoism, China’s indigenous religious tradition, to ask how Chinese traditions can contribute to the development of a new and ecologically sensitive Chinese modernity.

Visit the UB website for more information.

James Miller speaks at Harvard University October 16, 2016

October 16th, 2016

Religion, Ecology and our Planetary Future

James Miller speaks at Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School

James Miller speaks at Andover Hall, Harvard Divinity School

Center for the Study of World Religions
Harvard University
October 14-16, 2016

This conference marks the twentieth anniversary of the Religions of the World and Ecology Conference series and subsequent book series, and advances the work of understanding and transforming the discourse of religions and ecology for the 21st century. The conference took place on October 14-16, 2016.

The original series of conferences took place at Harvard beginning in May 1996, and concluded at the United Nations and the American Museum of Natural History in October 1998 with over 1,000 attendees. The conferences, and nine volumes arising from them, engaged the world’s leading authorities on religions and environment from every continent and included religious historians, ethicists, and individuals who play important roles in shaping public policy; getting those in the field and those in the academy talking to, and learning from one another.