![]() In addition to scholarly publishing, Professor Miller regularly speaks at academic conferences, and gives public lectures and media interviews on a wide variety of topics related to religion and culture in China. Professor Miller’s research illuminates how China’s religious and cultural traditions, especially Daoism, continue to influence Chinese socia l imagination about nature and environment and can help develop a Chinese ethic of ecological sustainability. China is experiencing massive economic change and unprecedent environmental devastation. China is now the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases and will eclipse the US as the world’s leading economy within a decade. ![]() Professor Miller is widely known as a key scholar of religion and ecology in China. Professor Miller’s has given lectures around the world in English, Chinese and Spanish, and his work has been translated into Italian, Chinese and Farsi. Over the past eighteen years, he has published six books on Chinese religions, including most recently China’s Green Religion (May 2017). He has become a leading interpreter of Daoist religion, through his study of the medieval Chinese religious movement known as The Way of Highest Clarity. Professor Miller’s academic career began with the study of Chinese language and culture at Durham University in the UK. Its first undergraduates graduated in 2022. He is also Editor-in-chief of Worldviews: Global Religions, Cultures, and Ecology.ĭuke Kunshan University is a new joint venture university created by Duke University (USA) and Wuhan University (China) with an innovative, interdisciplinary liberal arts and science curriculum. James Miller is the inaugural Professor of Humanities, Co-Director of the Humanities Research Center, and Chair of the Faculty Assembly at Duke Kunshan University. James Miller speaking at the Chautauqua institutions ![]()
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