July 2, 2017
By: James Miller
Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington D.C. after President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) James Miller, Queen's University, Ontario With President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the...
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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...
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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...
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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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May 13, 2009
By: James Miller
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="360" caption="A poster announces a power plant to be built in Tianjin, China."] [/caption] On Sunday the New York Times published a report, China Outpaces U.S. in Cleaner Coal-Fired Plants, which documented China's transition to cleaner forms of...
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December 1, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller I was very interested to read this article, published on the UN website, on Daoism as the “Way” for climate change action in China. The article was written by Olav Kyorven, an assistant secretary general of the UN...
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