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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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February 14, 2011

daoism and technological innovation

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_432" align="alignnone" width="553" caption="The electronic prayer hall at Wong Tai Sin (photo: Sik Sik Yuen)"][/caption] As China overtakes Japan to be recognized as the world's second largest economy, it is inevitable that Chinese religions will undergo change and transformation....
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November 19, 2010

ecological civilization

By: James Miller

[caption id="attachment_400" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Delegates at the Sino-US Forum on Ecological Civilization and Sustainable Development"][/caption]I was in Beijing and Tianjin recently for a week of conferences related to "ecological civilization" (shengtai wenming 生态文明) an important new buzzword, the precise meaning...
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