Global Capital, Local Conservation, and Ecological Civilization: The Tiejia Ecology Temple and the Chinese Daoist Association’s Green Agenda
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<jats:p>Since 1995, the Chinese Daoist Association (CDA) has pursued a green agenda
through the publication of declarations, statements and an eight year plan. This agenda
has been aided in part by its engagement with global environmental discourse as mediated
in particular by the Alliance for Religions and Conservation (ARC). Through its collaboration
with ARC and a Dutch businessman, Allerd Stickert, the CDA built its first “ecology
temple” in Shaanxi Province and convened its first ecological conference there. Analysis
of these declarations and activities reveals an increasing globalization and juridification
of environmental discourse in Chinese Daoist temples. In this way the issue of ecology
presents further opportunities for the CDA, and by extension the Communist Party of
China (CPC), to enhance their supervision of local religious activities.</jats:p>
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Lemche, J; & Miller, J (n.d.). Global Capital, Local Conservation, and Ecological Civilization: The Tiejia Ecology
Temple and the Chinese Daoist Association’s Green Agenda. Religions, 10(10). pp. 580-580. 10.3390/rel10100580. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19445.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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James Miller
Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University
James Miller is the inaugural Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University,
Chair of the Faculty Assembly, and co-director of the DKU Humanities Research Center. Prior
to his appointment at Duke Kunshan, Dr. Miller served as the director of the interdisciplinary
graduate program in cultural studies, and as the director of the School of Religion,
at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Miller's research is

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