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Item Open Access Authenticity, Sincerity and Spontaneity: The Mutual Implication of Nature and Religion in China and the West(Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2013-01-01) Miller, JamesFundamental approaches to ethics and morality in both China and the West are bound up not only with conceptions of religion and ultimate truth, but also with conceptions of nature. One dominant theme in the West is to see nature in terms of an original goodness that precedes human manipulation. This theme is bound up with Biblical views of divine creation by a divine lawmaker. In contrast to this view, Chinese conceptions of sincerity (cheng) and spontaneity (ziran) mitigate against such an abstract conception of the original goodness or authenticity of nature. © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden.Item Open Access Chinese cultural factors favouring biotechnology research(Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, 2010-04-01) Miller, JamesThis paper summarizes recent European research on social and cultural perceptions of biotechnology research, with a focus on transgenic mice. Secondly it attempts to consider some of the same questions from a Chinese cultural perspective. © 2010 Brill.Item Open Access Envisioning the Daoist body in the economy of cosmic power(Daedalus, 2001-09-01) Miller, JamesItem Open Access Is Green the New Red?: The Role of Religion in Creating a Sustainable China(Nature and Culture, 2013-01-01) Miller, JamesThe Chinese Daoist Association has embarked upon an ambitious agenda to promote Daoism as China's "green religion". This new construction of a "green Daoism" differs, however, from both traditional Chinese and modern Western interpretations of the affinity between Daoism and nature. In promoting Daoism as a green religion, the Chinese Daoist Association is not aiming to restore some mythical utopia of humans living in harmony with nature, but instead to support a nationalist agenda of patriotism and scientific development. At the same time, as I shall argue, this agenda may deliver positive benefits in the form of protecting the local environments around important sacred sites that are located in areas of outstanding natural beauty.Item Open Access The Daoist Society of Brazil and the Globalization of Orthodox Unity Daoism(Journal of Daoist Studies, 2013) Murray, Daniel M; Miller, JamesItem Open Access Time, and Again, and Forever: The Somatic Experience of Time in Daoist Philosophy and Religion(KronoScope, 2015-03-31) Miller, James© 2015 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Rather than considering time from a comparative philosophical perspective, the essay discusses the lived experience of time in the Esoteric Biography of Perfected Purple Yang, a Daoist hagiography associated with the fourth century ce Daoist movement that came to be known as the Way of Highest Clarity. This interpretation reveals three modes of time as experienced by the Daoist practitioner: singular time; repeated time; and forever time. Unlike the Biblical concept of time, ordained by God and calculated by the rotation of the stars, the hagiography points towards a Daoist experience of time that is experienced somatically through the individual's metabolism.Item Open Access TRADUÇ AO: A Sociedade Taoísta do Brasil e a globalizaç ao do Daoismo da Ortodoxia Unitária(Religare: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduaç ao em Ciências das Religi oes da UFPB, 2016) Murray, Daniel M; Miller, JamesItem Open Access Transfiguration, Spirituality and Embodiment: Perspectives from Christian and Daoist Scriptures(宗教哲學, 2016) Miller, James; 苗建時