Archive for June, 2009

How Confucianism could curb global warming

June 26, 2009
By james
How Confucianism could curb global warming

In today’s Christian Science Monitor, I published an op-ed piece that ties together some of the themes that I’ve been blogging about lately: Is democracy the best vehicle to ensure sustainable development? What is the Confucian view of the human person and its relationship to the environment? How is the Confucian renaissance in China...
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what is freedom of religion for?

June 17, 2009
By james
what is freedom of religion for?

There is hardly a truth more sacred to the contemporary American imagination than that religion must be free from interference by the state and that the state must be free from interference from religion. Neither of these ideals holds true in China, and this fact is an enormous thorn in the side of Chinese-American...
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An Ecologically Sustainable Future for China

Religious values and ideas are rich sources of cultural capital, and vital resources for fostering an ecologically sustainable future for the human species. Nowhere on the planet is this more important than China. Learn more.

 

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