Is Green the New Red?: The Role of Religion in Creating a Sustainable China
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The 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.
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Miller, James (2013). Is Green the New Red?: The Role of Religion in Creating a Sustainable China. Nature and Culture, 8(3). 10.3167/nc.2013.080302 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16707.
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James Miller
James Miller is the inaugural Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives. He served as Chair of the Faculty Assembly from 2022 to 2024, and as co-director of the DKU Humanities Research Center from 2018 to 2024. 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 based in the study of Chinese philosophy, theology, and religion, with an emphasis on philosophy of nature, environmental ethics, and the intersection of religion and ecology in China. He is known worldwide as a scholar of Daoism, China's indigenous religion, and especially its relation to ecology. He has published seven books including, most notably, China's Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future (Columbia 2017).
Dr. Miller serves as the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Worldviews: Global Cultures, Religion, and Ecology, published by Brill.
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