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James Miller

Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications


Transience, responsible transformation and deep time in Daoist thought

Chapter · March 31, 2024 This book draws on a spectrum of philosophical cultures to provide new perspectives on environmental ethics and intergenerational justice. ... Cite

Life/Time Reflections on Contemporary Scholarship in Jewish Environmentalism

Journal Article Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion · January 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Memory, Storytelling and GIS Digital Archive: Introducing the COVID-19 Memory Archival Project

Chapter · December 15, 2020 The COVID-19 Memory Archival Project is an educational and scholarly initiative that seeks to preserve individual and shared experiences and reflections during the COVID-19 outbreak through rich media storytelling and geographic information system (GIS) ma ... Link to item Cite

Editorial

Journal Article Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology · July 10, 2020 Full text Cite

Editorial

Journal Article Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

The Coronavirus: Human, Social and Political Implications

Book · January 1, 2020 This book describes and analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the relationship between the United States and China in its human, social and political dimensions. It does so through the experience of faculty and students at Duke University and Duke Kunshan Uni ... Full text Cite

Global capital, local conservation, and ecological civilization: The tiejia ecology temple and the chinese daoist association’s green agenda

Journal Article Religions · October 1, 2019 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

TRADUÇAO: A Sociedade Taoísta do Brasil e a globalizaçao do Daoismo da Ortodoxia Unitária

Journal Article Religare: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduaç ao em Ciências das Religi oes da UFPB · 2016 Open Access Cite

Daoism and development

Chapter · 2013 Cite

Nature

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Chinese Cultural Factors Favouring Biotechnology Research

Journal Article Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology · 2010 Open Access Cite

All nature was a mirror: A response to "All nature was a garden" by Augustin Berque

Journal Article Western Humanities Review · September 1, 2009 Cite

Daoism and Nature

Chapter · 2009 Cite

The Encyclopedia of Taoism

Other Religious Studies Review · December 2008 Full text Cite

The Way of Highest Clarity Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval China

Book · 2008 A study of a widespread esoteric tradition in medieval China called the Way of highest Clarity (Shangqing dao) with translations of three of its important texts and essays on its doctrines regarding nature, vision, and revelation. ... Cite

Of Alchemy and Authenticity: Teaching About Daoism Today

Journal Article Teaching Theology & Religion · April 2007 Full text Cite

The pristine Dao: Metaphysics in early Daoist discourse.

Journal Article Journal of Asian Studies · 2007 Cite

Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (review)

Other China Review International · 2006 Full text Cite

Daoism: A Short Introduction

Other Journal of Chinese Philosophy · December 2004 Full text Cite

Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi (review)

Other Philosophy East and West · January 2001 Full text Cite

Asceticism in early Taoist religion

Other Philosophy East and West · 2000 Cite