Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Boston University 2000
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  Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke

  • Associate Dean, Interdisciplinary Strategy, Duke Kunshan University (2020-)
    Chair, Arts and Humanities Division, Duke Kunshan University (2018-2020)
    Co-Director, Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center (2018-)
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Christianity and other religions--Taoism
  • Ecology--Religious aspects
  • Environmentalism--Religious aspects
  • Religion
  • Taoism
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • China (Country) 

  • Research

    • China (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • Canada (Country) 
    • China (Country) 
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Miller, J. (2017). China’s green religion : Daoism and the quest for a sustainable future. New York: Columbia University Press.
    • Miller, J., van der Veer, P., & Smyer Yu, D. (Eds.). (2014). Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China (pp. 1–248). Routledge.
    • Miller, J., van der Veer, P., & Smyer Yu, D. (Eds.). (2014). Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China (pp. 1–248). Routledge.
    • Miller, J. (2008). Daoism; A Beginner’s Guide. Oneworld Publications.
    • Miller, J. (2008). The Way of Highest Clarity Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval China. Magdalena: Three Pines Press.
    • Miller, J. (Ed.). (2006). Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies. Abc-clio.
    • Miller, J. (2005). Daoismo. Una introduzione. (M. Ghilardi, Trans.) (Vol. 101). Fazi Editore.
    • Miller, J. (2003). Daoism: A Short Introduction. Oxford: OneWorld Publications.
    • Girardot, N., Miller, J., & Liu, X. (Eds.). (2001). Daoism and ecology: ways within a cosmic landscape (Vol. 6). Harvard Univ Ctr for the Study of World Religions.
    • Girardot, N., Miller, J., & Liu, X. (Eds.). (2001). Daoism and ecology: ways within a cosmic landscape (Vol. 6). Harvard Univ Ctr for the Study of World Religions.

  • Academic Articles

    • Lemche, J., & Miller, J. (2019). Global capital, local conservation, and ecological civilization: The tiejia ecology temple and the chinese daoist association’s green agenda. Religions, 10(10). https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10100580
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    • Miller, J., & 苗建時. (2016). Transfiguration, Spirituality and Embodiment: Perspectives from Christian and Daoist Scriptures. 宗教哲學, 49–73.
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    • Murray, D. M., & Miller, J. (2016). TRADUÇAO: A Sociedade Taoísta do Brasil e a globalizaçao do Daoismo da Ortodoxia Unitária. Religare: Revista Do Programa De Pós Graduaç Ao Em Ciências Das Religi Oes Da Ufpb, 12, 315–343.
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    • Miller, J. (2015). Time, and again, and forever: The somatic experience of time in daoist philosophy and religion. Kronoscope, 15(1), 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341318
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    • Miller, J. (2013). Authenticity, sincerity and spontaneity: The mutual implication of nature and religion in China and the West. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 25(3), 283–307. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341259
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    • Miller, J. (2013). Is green the new red? The role of religion in creating a sustainable China. Nature and Culture, 8(3), 249–264. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2013.080302
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    • Murray, D. M., & Miller, J. (2013). The Daoist Society of Brazil and the Globalization of Orthodox Unity Daoism. Journal of Daoist Studies, 6(1), 93–114. https://doi.org/10.1353/dao.2013.0003
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    • Miller, J. (2010). Chinese cultural factors favouring biotechnology research. Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, 14(1), 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853510X498087
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    • Miller, J. (2010). Humans Must Conquer Nature: Philosophical and Religious Sources of China’s Anti-Environmental Ideology.
    • Miller, J. (2009). All nature was a mirror: A response to "All nature was a garden" by Augustin Berque. Western Humanities Review, 63(3), 23–29.
    • Miller, J. (2007). The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse. By Thomas Michael. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xii, 170 pp. $64.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). The Journal of Asian Studies, 66(4), 1122–1124. https://doi.org/10.1017/s002191180700143x
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    • Miller, J., & Siegler, E. (2007). Of Alchemy and Authenticity: Teaching About Daoism Today. Teaching Theology & Religion, 10(2), 101–108. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9647.2007.00323.x
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    • Miller, J. (2001). Mysticism and Kingship in China: The Heart of Chinese Wisdom. By Julia Ching; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxi, 302 pages. $74.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). The Journal of Asian Studies, 60(4), 1146–1147. https://doi.org/10.2307/2700041
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    • Miller, J. (2001). Envisioning the Daoist body in the economy of cosmic power. Daedalus, 130(4), 265–282.
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  • Book Sections

    • Miller, J. (2016). China: Landscapes, cultures, ecologies, religions. In Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology (pp. 181–189). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315764788
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    • Miller, J. (2014). Ecology, Aesthetics and Daoist Body Cultivation. In J. B. Callicott & J. McRae (Eds.), Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought (pp. 225–244). SUNY Press.
    • Miller, J. (2014). Connecting Religion and Ecology. In P. Hedges (Ed.), Controversies in contemporary religion : education, law, politics, society, and spirituality. Santa Barabra, CA: Praeger.
    • Smyer Yu, D., Miller, J., & van der Veer, P. (2014). Introduction: The diversity of eco-religious practice in China. In Religion and ecological sustainability in China (pp. 1–16). Routledge.
    • Xia, C., Guoxiang, P., & Miller, J. (2014). ‘Hard-hearted’ and ‘soft-hearted’ ecologies: A rereading of Confucian and Daoist classics. In J. Miller, D. Smyer Yu, & P. van der Veer (Eds.), Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China (pp. 71–83). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203739549
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    • Miller, J. (2013). Daoism and development. In Handbook of Research on Development and Religion (pp. 113–123).
    • Miller, J. (2013). Monitory democracy and ecological civilization in the people's republic of China. In Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy (Vol. 7, pp. 137–148).
    • Miller, J. (2013). Nature, impersonality, and absence in the theology of highest clarity daoism. In Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities (pp. 669–680). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5219-1_54
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    • Miller, J. (2012). Nature. In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions (pp. 349–368). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444361995.ch16
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    • Miller, J. (2012). Monitory Democracy and Ecological Civilization in the People’s Republic of China. In L. Trägårdh, N. Witoszek, & B. Taylor (Eds.), Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy (Vol. 7). Berghahn Books.
    • Miller, J. (2012). Nature in Chinese Traditions of Thought. Wiley-Blackwell.
    • Miller, J. (2009). Daoism and Nature. In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195178722.003.0010
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    • Miller, J. (2009). Religion, Nature and Modernization in China. In W. B. Drees (Ed.), Technology, Trust and Religion: Roles of Religion in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life (pp. 107–122). Leiden: Leiden University Press.
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    • Miller, J. (2006). The Historical Legacy of China’s Religious Traditions. In J. Miller (Ed.), Chinse Religions in Contemporary Societies (pp. 9–30).
    • Miller, J. (2006). The Historical Legacy of China’s Religious Traditions. In J. Miller (Ed.), Chinse Religions in Contemporary Societies (pp. 9–30).
    • Xiang, H., & Miller, J. (2006). Confucian Spirituality in an Ecological Age. In J. Miller (Ed.), Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies (pp. 55–67). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
    • Xiang, H., & Miller, J. (2006). Confucian Spirituality in an Ecological Age. In J. Miller (Ed.), Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies (pp. 55–67). Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
    • Miller, J. (2006). Daoism and ecology.
    • Miller, J. (2004). Manifesto for a Daoist Theology of Messianic Wisdom (Vol. 22, pp. 283–283). CRVP.
    • Miller, J. (2003). Daoism and Nature. In Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science (pp. 393–409). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0149-5_20
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    • Kohn, L., & Miller, J. (2001). Truth in Chinese Religion. In R. C. Neville (Ed.), Religious Truth: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project. State University of New York Press.
    • Miller, J. (2001). Respecting the Environment, or Visualizing Highest Clarity. In N. Girardot, J. Miller, & X. Liu (Eds.), Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape (pp. 351–360). Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions.
    • Miller, J. (2001). Respecting the Environment, or Visualizing Highest Clarity. In N. Girardot, J. Miller, & X. Liu (Eds.), Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape (pp. 351–360). Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions.

  • Book Reviews

    • Miller, J. (2015). Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities by Terry F. Kleeman. China Review International. University of Hawai’i Press.
    • Miller, J. (2009). Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts'un-Yan – Edited by Benjamin Penny. Religious Studies Review. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2009.01392_11.x
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    • Miller, J. (2009). Review of Louis Komjathy, Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism. Sophia. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-008-0085-0
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    • Miller, J. (2009). Review of Louis Komjathy, Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism. Sophia , 48 , 95-98.
    • Miller, J. (2008). The Encyclopedia of Taoism. Religious Studies Review. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2008.00312.x
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    • Miller, J. (2008). Book Review: Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine. Theological Studies. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.1177/004056390806900120
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    • Miller, J. (2008). Book Review: Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine. Theological Studies. SAGE Publications.
    • Miller, J. (2007). The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse. By THOMAS MICHAEL. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. xii, 170 pp. $64.50 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). The Journal of Asian Studies. Cambridge Univ Press.
    • Miller, J. (2006). Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (review). China Review International. Project Muse. https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.2007.0037
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    • Miller, J., & Cline, E. M. (2004). Daoism: A Short Introduction. Journal of Chinese Philosophy. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00170_4.x
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    • Miller, J. (2002). The Tao of the West and the Emerging Discipline of Daoist Studies. Religious Studies Review. COUNCIL OF SOCIETIES FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION.
    • Miller, J. (2001). Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi (review). Philosophy East and West. Project Muse. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2001.0012
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    • Miller, J. (2001). Mysticism and Kingship in China: The Heart of Chinese Wisdom. By Julia Ching; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xxi, 302 pages. $74.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). The Journal of Asian Studies. Cambridge Univ Press.
    • Miller, J. (2000). Asceticism in early Taoist religion. Philosophy East & West.
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  • Reports

    • Miller, J. (2012). Chinese Sexual Yoga and the Way of Immortality.
    • Miller, J. (2012). RELS-235* Religion and Environment: Or how I learned to stop worrying about my lectures and love my students.
    • Miller, J. (2009). China’s Quest for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture. Atlantic-Community. org.

  • Conference Papers

    • Miller, J. (2012). Creating Cultures of Ecological Sustainability.
    • Miller, J. (2012). Liminal animals: exotic, endangered and transgenic creatures.
    • Miller, J. (2012). Religion, Ecology and the Future of the Human Species.
    • Miller, J. (2012). Religión, Naturaleza y Modernidad: la búsqueda para un futuro sostenible en la República popular de China.
    • Miller, J. (2012). TRANSFIGURED SPACE The Education and Cultivation of Perfected Purple Yang.
    • Miller, J. (2012). The Economy of Cosmic Power: A Vision for a Daoist Theology of Religion.
    • Miller, J. (2012). The Space of Nature and the Nature of Space in the Esoteric Biography of Perfected Purple Yang 紫陽真人內傳.
    • Miller, J. (2012). The Symbolic and Environmental Value of Water in Daoism.
    • Miller, J. (2012). Why Believing in the Afterlife is Valuable.
    • Miller, J. (2012). “Make It So!” The Persistence of Religion.
    • Miller, J., & Vashon Island, W. A. (2001). Living Light: Shangqing Daoist Cultivation in Theory and Practice.

  • Theses and Dissertations

    • Miller, J. (2000). The economy of cosmic power: a theory of religious transaction and a comparative study of Shangqing Daoism and the Christian religion of Augustine of Hippo.
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Service to the Profession

  • Co-Director. Religion and Ecology Unit. American Academy of Religion. 2016 - 2018  2016 - 2018

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