August 12, 2013
By: James Miller
James Miller. 2013. "Authenticity, Sincerity and Spontaneity: The Mutual Implication of Nature and Religion in China and the West." Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 25: 283-307 Abstract Fundamental approaches to ethics and morality in both China and the...
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August 16, 2010
By: James Miller
James Miller. 2010. Religion, Nature and Modernization in China. Pp. 107-122 in Technology, Trust and Religion: Roles of Religion in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life edited by Willem B. Drees. Leiden: Leiden University Press. One of most important concepts...
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June 25, 2010
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_534" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Photograph taken during the liturgy at the Templo da Transparência Sublime, Rio de Janeiro, December 2009."][/caption] In a Wall Street Journal blog today, Christopher Carothers asks, "Is Daoism is losing its way?" He writes: Today, Buddhism...
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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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January 29, 2009
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_219" align="alignright" width="300" caption="A collapsed building in Dujiangyan, close to the epicentre of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake."][/caption] China's massive system of hydroelectric dams and water distribution has come under fire once again. Right after the devastating Sichuan earthquake of...
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