Browsing Cultural Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Program by Publish Date
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Religion, Ecology and the Future of the Human Species
(2012-06-04)Slides for a lecture given at the Harvest Conference, Rural Church Network, Muenster SK. -
Religión, Naturaleza y Modernidad: la búsqueda para un futuro sostenible en la República popular de China
(2012-06-04)Lecture given at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, December 2005 -
Chinese Sexual Yoga and the Way of Immortality
(2012-06-04)Bedchamber arts belong to a broad tradition of macrobiotic practices within Chinese culture aimed at improving health and wellbeing, and extending the lifespan of the physical body. Related practices involve the regulation of ... -
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 ... -
RELS-235* Religion and Environment: Or how I learned to stop worrying about my lectures and love my students
(2012-06-04)This paper reflects on my experience of teaching a 200-level interdisciplinary course on “Religion and the Environment” which fulfilled requirements for students in religious studies and environmental studies. The course ... -
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 ... -
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. -
“Make It So!” The Persistence of Religion
(2012-06-04)A (somewhat) humourous talk give at Queen’s School of Religion, March 2012. -
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 -
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 -
Truth in Chinese Religion
(2012-06-04)Seminar paper presented to the Cross-Cultural Comparative Religious Ideas Project, Boston University, November 18, 1997 -
Chinese Cultural Factors Favouring Biotechnology Research
(Worldviews, 2009)This paper summarizes recent European research on social and cultural perceptions of biotechnology research, with a focus on transgenic mice. Secondly it attempts to consider some of the same questions from a Chinese ... -
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 ... -
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. -
Daoism and Sustainable Development
(2012-06-07)This paper examines the relationship between Daoism and sustainable development. It examines the contribution of religion to issues of sustainability in local economies and the way in which Daoist world views intersect ... -
Connecting Religion and Ecology
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Religion, Nature and Modernization in China
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A Critique of Critical Race Theory: a Textual Analysis of the ‘Mr. Gaijin’ Mask
(2012-08-22)The thesis suggests the toy-like mask of a white man, ‘Hello, Mr. Gaijin,’ as a site of analysis where the culture of racisms is (re)produced in the specific context of contemporary Japan. Sold as a gig gift in Japan, the ... -
Interrogating Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Large-Scale Mining in Colombia
(2012-09-24)In this thesis, I examine the case of the Canadian-based multinational mining corporation GreyStar resources Ltd. in Colombia. Angosturas is GreyStar’s large-scale gold mining project in the sensitive wet highland of páramo ...