June 17, 2009
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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December 30, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller In a recent article entitled Two Big China Stories You Missed This Year Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a respected professor of Chinese history at UC Irvine, highlighted the rehabilitation of Confucius as one of the most significant trends in contemporary China....
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December 22, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller Christmas, as we all know, is the grand festival of the religion of consumerism. We pay homage to our saviour Santa Claus in the vast cathedral of the shopping mall. There we make a sizeable donation to...
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December 14, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller An editorial in Friday's Dallas Morning News argued that Hillary Clinton, the incoming U.S. Secretary of State, should move to "close our diplomats' religion deficit." The argument was that in order to succeed in international relations, it's...
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December 5, 2008
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_141" align="alignleft" width="350" caption=""carry out family planning""][/caption] By James Miller I've been following Andrew Revkin's dot Earth blog at the New York Times. The tag-line of the blog is "Nine Billion People. One Planet" and is premised on the demographic...
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