June 7, 2012
By: James Miller
A recent news story on Reuters, headlined Thou Shalt Not Launch IPOs, China tells temples, reports that the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA) has issued an injunction against temples listing on the stock exchange. SARA official Liu Wei is...
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August 16, 2011
By: James Miller
[caption id="attachment_463" align="alignright" width="150" caption="A Blang nationality woman"][/caption] The question of how to promote a culture of ecological sustainability in China took me this summer to conduct exploratory fieldwork among the Blang minority nationality, in Yunnan province, close to 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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September 25, 2009
By: James Miller
Over the past sixty years China has achieved something close to a miracle when compared with other developing nations. It by and large manages to feed, educate, house and employ its own people. It is not involved in futile and...
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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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April 3, 2009
By: James Miller
I have just finished teaching my undergraduate course on religion and the environment. Most of the students are in engineering or environmental science, and the course fulfills a humanities requirement for them. It's been fascinating teaching scientists about religion, as...
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January 19, 2009
By: James Miller
Here's three reasons why China's traditional religions and cultures will play an increasingly important role in the East Asian political scene. In mainland China, more people than ever are turning to religion. An interview with Arrianna Liu, who works in...
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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 1, 2008
By: James Miller
By James Miller In October I was invited to participate in a symposium on International Perspectives on Nature and Culture organized by the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. I was on a panel responding to...
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