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	<title>sustainable china &#187; daoism</title>
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		<title>daoism and technological innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2011/02/14/daoism-and-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As China overtakes Japan to be recognized as the world&#8217;s second largest economy, it is inevitable that Chinese religions will undergo change and transformation. But since Marx infamously compared the social function of religion to that of a narcotic, religion has consistently been framed in the modern imagination as backwards, anti-modern, and anti-science. China&#8217;s modernizers, likewise, have viewed religion as a problem to be overcome in the quest to build the new China, and their view has become part of the mainstream amongst Chinese youth. In Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies, I told a story about a lecture that I gave in Shanghai several years ago: one of the students was shocked to learn that I studied Chinese religions, and asked me, incredulously, why on earth someone would spend time studying China&#8217;s religions! Of course it is entirely ironic that the divisive narrative that frames religion as part of the past has also been taken up by some religious institutions who would seek to return human civilization to some mythic ideal that most likely never existed as an empirical fact. Fundamentalists and secular modernists often share the same framework about the absolute disjunction between modernity and science on the one hand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>daoist religion and ecotourism: a visit to maoshan</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2010/09/02/daoist-religion-and-ecotourism-a-visit-to-maoshan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May this year I had the opportunity to visit Maoshan (Mt. Mao) a Daoist mountain sacred to the Shangqing (Highest Clarity) tradition of Daoism that I studied in my most recent book. Located in Jiangsu province, it is about an hour&#8217;s bus ride south of Zhenjiang, a stop on the main high speed railway from Shanghai to Nanjing. I was interested to visit Maoshan not only because of my historical research, but because it was the site of the Maoshan declaration, which in 2008 committed China&#8217;s Daoist Association to a ten year program of ecological protection. The result of my visit is a mixed assessment of the possibilities and problems associated with the practical implementation of Daoism and ecology. I&#8217;ll be presenting the full details of my conclusions at the forthcoming SASASAAS conference at Furman University on September 24-25, but I&#8217;d like to present some key findings now. First of all, the encounter between Daoism  and Ecology has to be understood from the perspective of China&#8217;s engagement with modernity and especially science. &#8220;Ecology&#8221; in Chinese does not signify a Romantic attachment to nature undefiled by human habitation, but rather a modern, scientific and ultimately technological enterprise. To make Daoist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>daoism&#8217;s quest for relevance</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2010/06/25/daoisms-quest-for-relevance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Wall Street Journal blog today, Christopher Carothers asks, &#8220;Is Daoism is losing its way?&#8221; He writes: Today, Buddhism is regaining its traditional place as the largest religion in Chinese society. Islam is expanding through the growth of Muslim families in the Hui and Uyghur minority ethnic groups. Protestantism and Catholicism are winning new converts all over China and shaking off the old label of “foreign religion.” Daoism, on the other hand, seems to be standing still. Worse still, he argues, Daoism is often ridiculed by other religions, as was the case in the recent incident in Singapore, in which a Christian pastor was forced to apologize for his anti-Daoist remarks. Singapore has strict rules concerning public speech about religion, so one can only imagine what anti-Daoist sentiments are being expressed in countries without such restrictions on free speech. Carothers offers a reason for this reported decline, quoting unnamed researchers who say &#8220;the main reasons for Daoism’s troubles are its poor social networking and the lack of available information about its teachings.&#8221; This reason deserves further explanation. It&#8217;s certainly true that Daoism is a lineage-based tradition which prizes knowledge and training that are passed on orally from teacher to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>new directions in religion and nature</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2010/06/08/new-directions-in-religion-and-nature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in LA last weekend to attend the Sixth Annual Conference on Daoist Studies which was organized by my former teacher, Livia Kohn, and LMU Professor Robin Wang. The conference drew the usual mix of academics and practitioners (which was itself the subject of an interesting meta-analysis by Elijah Siegler). My rationale for attending the conference, however, was that one of its focus themes was religion and ecology. I wanted to see how far the field had evolved since I co-edited the first book on this topic, Daoism and Ecology, Ways within a Cosmic Landscape, in 2001, and I&#8217;m delighted to report that there has been some excellent progress. The majority of essays in that volume, nearly a decade old now, focussed on correlations between environmental concepts and philosophical and religious concepts in the Daoist tradition. Some focussed more on cultural practices such as fengshui or meditation, but there was generally a lack of historical detail and also theoretical innovation. But it was the first stab at creating such a field, so one can&#8217;t be too critical. On the other hand, the papers presented at this year&#8217;s conference revealed a greater emphasis on historical detail and also a willingness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>china&#8217;s green religion</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/11/05/chinas-green-religion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at the First Summit on Laozi and Daoist Culture, which is taking place this week in Beijing. The Summit is the work of Prof. Hu Fuchen, one of the leading scholars of Daoism, and a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This morning, we had the opening ceremony, which was held in the Great Hall of the People. It was my first time in this magnificent building. The purpose of the conference is basically to promote Daoism throughout China and the World. It is being funded by a wealthy donor, and has received backing at a high level from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Daoism has been something of a poor relative lately. Buddhism is better funded. Confucianism receives a very high level of support form the central government. But to many people, Daoism is poorly understood and associated with superstition. As one of the invited foreign delegates, it seems that my job is to demonstrate international support for this venture, to have my photograph taken along with the 500 or so other delegates, and to be part of the ritual theatre that the organizers have carefully crafted to promote Daoism as an essential ingredient of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>did china&#8217;s dams trigger the sichuan earthquake?</title>
		<link>http://www.sustainablechina.info/2009/01/29/did-chinas-dams-trigger-the-sichuan-earthquake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China&#8217;s massive system of hydroelectric dams and water distribution has come under fire once again. Right after the devastating Sichuan earthquake of May 12, 2008, in which over 70,000 people lost their lives, officials rushed to deny that the massive Three Gorges Dam complex hundreds of kilometres downstream could have played any role in triggering the natural disaster. Now officials are working hard to  play down a call by Fan Xiao, Chief Engineer of the Regional Geology Investigation Team of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau, for scientists to investigate whether the Zipingpu dam project, located upstream of the quake area, may have triggered the earthquake. Fan&#8217;s call comes in the wake of a paper by Christian Klose at Columbia University which theorized how abnormal surface stresses caused by the Zipingpu dam system may have triggered the massive earthquake. Klose&#8217;s hypothesis also matches work conducted by Lei Xinglin a geologist with the China Earthquake Administration in Beijing. According to a recent article in Science magazine, Fan says that although the hypothesis that the dam triggered the earthquake as yet remains unproven, &#8216;We should readjust our existing plans and take a more cautious attitude when planning projects.&#8221;  He doubts, however, that his [...]]]></description>
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