Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

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

  • Chair, Arts and Humanities Division, Duke Kunshan University
    Co-Director, Duke Kunshan University Humanities Research Center
• 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, James. China’s green religion : Daoism and the quest for a sustainable future. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
    • Miller, James, Peter van der Veer, and Dan Smyer Yu, eds. Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China. Routledge, 2014.
    • Miller, James, Peter van der Veer, and Dan Smyer Yu, eds. Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China. Routledge, 2014.
    • Miller, James. Daoism; A Beginner’s Guide. Oneworld Publications, 2008.
    • Miller, James. The Way of Highest Clarity Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval China. Magdalena: Three Pines Press, 2008.
    • Miller, James, ed. Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies. Abc-clio, 2006.
    • Miller, James. Daoismo. Una introduzione. Translated by M. Ghilardi. Vol. 101. Fazi Editore, 2005.
    • Miller, James. Daoism: A Short Introduction. Oxford: OneWorld Publications, 2003.
    • Girardot, Norman, james Miller, and Xiaogan Liu, eds. Daoism and ecology: ways within a cosmic landscape. Vol. 6. Harvard Univ Ctr for the Study of World Religions, 2001.
    • Girardot, Norman, james Miller, and Xiaogan Liu, eds. Daoism and ecology: ways within a cosmic landscape. Vol. 6. Harvard Univ Ctr for the Study of World Religions, 2001.

  • Academic Articles

    • Miller, James, and 苗建時 James. “Transfiguration, Spirituality and Embodiment: Perspectives from Christian and Daoist Scriptures.” 宗教哲學, 2016, 49–73.
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    • Murray, Daniel M., and James Miller. “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 (2016): 315–43.
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    • Miller, J. “Time, and again, and forever: The somatic experience of time in daoist philosophy and religion.” Kronoscope 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 13–25. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-12341318.
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    • Miller, J. “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, no. 3 (December 1, 2013): 283–307. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341259.
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    • Miller, J. “Is green the new red? The role of religion in creating a sustainable China.” Nature and Culture 8, no. 3 (November 7, 2013): 249–64. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2013.080302.
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    • Murray, Daniel M., and James Miller. “The Daoist Society of Brazil and the Globalization of Orthodox Unity Daoism.” Journal of Daoist Studies 6, no. 1 (2013): 93–114. https://doi.org/10.1353/dao.2013.0003.
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    • Miller, J. “Chinese cultural factors favouring biotechnology research.” Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion 14, no. 1 (April 1, 2010): 96–105. https://doi.org/10.1163/156853510X498087.
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    • Miller, James. “Humans Must Conquer Nature: Philosophical and Religious Sources of China’s Anti-Environmental Ideology,” 2010.
    • Miller, J. “All nature was a mirror: A response to "All nature was a garden" by Augustin Berque.” Western Humanities Review 63, no. 3 (September 1, 2009): 23–29.
    • Miller, James, and Elijah Siegler. “Of Alchemy and Authenticity: Teaching About Daoism Today.” Teaching Theology & Religion 10, no. 2 (April 2007): 101–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9647.2007.00323.x.
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    • Miller, James. “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, no. 4 (November 2001): 1146–47. https://doi.org/10.2307/2700041.
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    • Miller, J. “Envisioning the Daoist body in the economy of cosmic power.” Daedalus 130, no. 4 (September 1, 2001): 265–82.
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  • Book Sections

    • Miller, J. “China: Landscapes, cultures, ecologies, religions.” In Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology, 181–89, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315764788.
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    • Miller, James. “Ecology, Aesthetics and Daoist Body Cultivation.” In Environmental Philosophy in Asian Traditions of Thought, edited by J Baird Callicott and James McRae, 225–44. SUNY Press, 2014.
    • Miller, James. “Connecting Religion and Ecology.” In Controversies in Contemporary Religion : Education, Law, Politics, Society, and Spirituality, edited by Paul Hedges. Santa Barabra, CA: Praeger, 2014.
    • Smyer Yu, Dan, James Miller, and Peter van der Veer. “Introduction: The diversity of eco-religious practice in China.” In Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China, 1–16. Routledge, 2014.
    • Xia, C., P. Guoxiang, and J. Miller. “‘Hard-hearted’ and ‘soft-hearted’ ecologies: A rereading of Confucian and Daoist classics.” In Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China, edited by James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu, and Peter van der Veer, 71–83. Routledge, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203739549.
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    • Miller, J. “Daoism and development.” In Handbook of Research on Development and Religion, 113–23, 2013.
    • Miller, J. “Monitory democracy and ecological civilization in the people's republic of China.” In Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy, 7:137–48, 2013.
    • Miller, J. “Nature, impersonality, and absence in the theology of highest clarity daoism.” In Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities, 669–80, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5219-1_54.
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    • Miller, J. “Nature.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions, 349–68, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444361995.ch16.
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    • Miller, James. “Monitory Democracy and Ecological Civilization in the People’s Republic of China.” In Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy, edited by Lars Trägårdh, Nina Witoszek, and Bron Taylor, Vol. 7. Berghahn Books, 2012.
    • Miller, J. "Nature in Chinese Traditions of Thought." Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
    • Miller, J. “Daoism and Nature.” In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195178722.003.0010.
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    • Miller, James. “Religion, Nature and Modernization in China.” In Technology, Trust and Religion: Roles of Religion in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life, edited by Willem B. Drees, 107–22. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2009.
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    • Miller, James. “The Historical Legacy of China’s Religious Traditions.” In Chinse Religions in Contemporary Societies, edited by James Miller, 9–30, 2006.
    • Miller, James. “The Historical Legacy of China’s Religious Traditions.” In Chinse Religions in Contemporary Societies, edited by James Miller, 9–30, 2006.
    • Xiang, He, and James Miller. “Confucian Spirituality in an Ecological Age.” In Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies, edited by james Miller, 55–67. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
    • Xiang, He, and James Miller. “Confucian Spirituality in an Ecological Age.” In Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies, edited by james Miller, 55–67. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006.
    • Miller, J. "Daoism and ecology." 2006.
    • Miller, James. “Manifesto for a Daoist Theology of Messianic Wisdom,” 22:283–283. CRVP, 2004.
    • Miller, James. “Daoism and Nature.” In Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 393–409. Springer Netherlands, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0149-5_20.
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    • Kohn, Livia, and James Miller. “Truth in Chinese Religion.” In Religious Truth: A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project, edited by Robert Cummings Neville. State University of New York Press, 2001.
    • Miller, James. “Respecting the Environment, or Visualizing Highest Clarity.” In Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape, edited by Norman Girardot, James Miller, and Xiaogan Liu, 351–60. Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 2001.
    • Miller, James. “Respecting the Environment, or Visualizing Highest Clarity.” In Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape, edited by Norman Girardot, James Miller, and Xiaogan Liu, 351–60. Cambridge: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 2001.

  • Book Reviews

    • Miller, James. “Celestial Masters: History and Ritual in Early Daoist Communities by Terry F. Kleeman.” China Review International. University of Hawai’i Press, 2015.
    • Miller, James. “Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts'un-Yan – Edited by Benjamin Penny.” Religious Studies Review. Wiley, December 2009. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2009.01392_11.x.
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    • Miller, James. “Review of Louis Komjathy, Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism.” Sophia. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, February 2009. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-008-0085-0.
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    • Miller, J. "Review of Louis Komjathy, Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism." Sophia 48 (2009): 95-98.
    • Miller, James. “The Encyclopedia of Taoism.” Religious Studies Review. Wiley, December 2008. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-0922.2008.00312.x.
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    • Miller, James. “Book Review: Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine.” Theological Studies. SAGE Publications, February 2008. https://doi.org/10.1177/004056390806900120.
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    • Miller, James. “Book Review: Overcoming Our Evil: Human Nature and Spiritual Exercises in Xunzi and Augustine.” Theological Studies. SAGE Publications, 2008.
    • Miller, James. “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, 2007.
    • Miller, James. “Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (review).” China Review International. Project Muse, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1353/cri.2007.0037.
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    • Miller, James, and Erin M. Cline. “Daoism: A Short Introduction.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy. Wiley, December 2004. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00170_4.x.
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    • Miller, James. “The Tao of the West and the Emerging Discipline of Daoist Studies.” Religious Studies Review. COUNCIL OF SOCIETIES FOR THE STUDY OF RELIGION, 2002.
    • Miller, James. “Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi (review).” Philosophy East and West. Project Muse, 2001. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2001.0012.
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    • Miller, James. “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, 2001.
    • Miller, J. “Asceticism in early Taoist religion.” Philosophy East & West, July 2000.
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  • Reports

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

  • Conference Papers

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

  • Theses and Dissertations

    • Miller, James. “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,” 2000.
• 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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