Browsing by Subject "Daoism"
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Daoism in Brazil: The Globalization of the Orthodox Unity (Zhengyi) Tradition
(2010-08-13)The Daoist Society of Brazil (Sociedade Taoista do Brasil) was founded by Wu Jyh Cherng (Wu Zhicheng 武志成), a Taiwanese immigrant, in 1991. Today the Society operates two temples in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and is ... -
The Economy of Cosmic Power: A Vision for a Daoist Theology of Religion
(2012-06-04)A comparison of Daoist and Christian religious ideas using Robert Cummings Neville's theory of religious ideas. -
Envisioning the Daoist Body in the Economy of Cosmic Power
(Daedalus, 2001)The essay considers the relevance of Daoism to thinking about the place of human beings in the world in the light of global climate change. -
The Greening of Chinese Daoism: Modernity, Bureaucracy and Ecology in Contemporary Chinese Religion
(2010-09-09)This paper seeks to examine the role of Daoism as a green religion. It analyzes a variety of sources which report an overall trend of greening within Daoism in China, including academic literature, primary source material ... -
Living Light: Shangqing Daoist Cultivation in Theory and Practice
(2012-06-04)Notes for a presentation given at a Conference on Daoist Cultivation, Vashon Island, WA, May 2001 -
Nature in Chinese Traditions of Thought
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)A survey of key themes and debates in Chinese philosophy and religion relating to the concept of nature. -
Nature, Impersonality, and Absence in the Theology of Highest Clarity Daoism
(2012-06-04)This essay describes salient features of the theological vision of the Way of Highest Clarity (Shangqing Dao), a Daoist religious movement that began in the late fourth century of the common era. The tradition emphasized ... -
Of Alchemy and Authenticity:Teaching About Daoism Today
(Teaching Theology and Religion, 2007)The authors discuss the complexities and responsibilities of teaching about Daoism in contemporary North American colleges and universities. Expanding and revising the findings of Kirkland (1998), they argue that enough ... -
A Sociedade Taoísta do Brasil e a globalização do Daoismo da Ortodoxia Unitária
(2015-12)Fora de contexto cultural chinês, o Daoísmo é frequentemente associado a práticas de cultivo físico, tais como qìgōng ou tàijí quán, em vez de linhagens tradicionais de Quánzhēn ou Zhèngyī e como uma religião hierarquicamente ... -
The Space of Nature and the Nature of Space in the Esoteric Biography of Perfected Purple Yang 紫陽真人內傳
(2012-06-04)A handout for a talk given at the University of Sydney on the Daoist hagiographic text "Esoteric Biography of Perfected Purple Yang" 紫陽真人內傳(Ziyang zhenren neizhuan) -
The Symbolic and Environmental Value of Water in Daoism
(2012-06-04)A presentation given at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, May 2004 -
Towards an Ecological Pedagogy: Body Movement for Ecological Consciousness
(2016-09-09)This paper examines the moving body as a vehicle for raising ecological consciousness. Due to the modern over-preoccupation with the pursuit of rational aims, human interactions with the surrounding environment increasingly ... -
TRANSFIGURED SPACE The Education and Cultivation of Perfected Purple Yang
(2012-06-04)An analysis of the Esoteric Biography of the Purple Perfected Yang 紫陽真人內傳, a hagiography prized and transmitted by the Xu 許 family, in whose midst originated the medieval Daoist religious movement known as Way of Highest ... -
Truth in Chinese Religion
(2012-06-04)Seminar paper presented to the Cross-Cultural Comparative Religious Ideas Project, Boston University, November 18, 1997 -
The Way of Highest Clarity: Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval China
(Three Pines Press, 2008)Excerpts from the book "The Way of Highest Clarity: Nature, Vision and Revelation in Medieval Daoism" by James Miller -
生态学，美学与道教修炼
(学术研究 Journal of Academic Research, 2010-04)This paper proposes that Daoist body cultivation can be used as a means to develop an ecological sensitivity. It does so by examining Daoist body cultivation in the light of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body, and ...