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October 31, 2016

Daoism, Ecology and Undisciplining the University

By: James Miller

On October 14, 2016, I made a presentation at Harvard Divinity School on Daoism and Ecology. The context for this presentation was conference on Religion, Ecology, and our Planetary Future, organized by Harvard’s Center for the Study of World Religions. This conferenced marked the twentieth anniversary of a series of conferences on world religions and […]

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July 9, 2013

journey of the universe

By: James Miller

At the end of June I had the privilege of speaking at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. The topic for the week was the film Journey of the Universe, by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker. If you haven’t seen it, you can read all about it on the website at http://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org. The […]

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January 6, 2011

green china rising

By: James Miller

http://www.youtube.com/v/YlOA_eO8IsQ&rel=0&fs=1 As the trailer for this new documentary from Mandarin Films makes clear, the global environmental crisis will be solved in China, not in America, for the simple reason that China has no other option. As I noted recently in my post on ecological civilization in China, there is a widespread recognition in China that […]

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August 16, 2008

Luo Tian Da Jiao

By: James Miller

In 2007 a large scale 12-day Daoist ritual took place in Hong Kong to mark the tenth anniversary of the return of Hong Kong to China. This ten minute video captures some of the ritual, with commentary

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