Queen's School of Religion is pleased to announce the recent publication of Prof. James Miller's sixth book, China's Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017).
China鈥檚 Green Religion develops a normative critique of of modernity from an ecocritical analysis of ideas and values found within Daoism, China鈥檚 indigenous religious tradition. It also aims to produce an alternative vision for a culture of sustainability that is of relevance to China and the world in the mid twenty-first century.
According to Prof. Miller, Daoism offers four key insights into how to do this. It offers:
- a vision of nature not as an object that lies outside human bodies and experience, but as a subjective power that indwells and informs human life;
- an anthropology of the porous body based on the sense of Qi flowing through landscapes and bodies;
- a tradition of knowing founded on the experience of transformative power in specific landscapes and topographies;
- an aesthetic and moral sensibility based on the affective experience of the world pervading the body and the body pervading the world.
The book was launched at the Mountains and Sacred Landscapes Conference at the New School, New York in April 2017.
More information about Dr. Miller and his research can be found on his website: