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James Miller is Associate Professor of Chinese Religions at Queen’s School of Religion, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
He is known principally as a scholar of Daoism, also known as Taoism, the organized, indigenous religion of China. His Sinological work has involved translating and interpreting texts from the medieval Chinese religious movement known as the Way of Highest Clarity. More broadly, James Miller studies the way religions construct images of nature and influence values and behaviour towards nature and the environment.
James Miller's current research engages the way that Daoism is being constructed as a “green religion” in China and abroad. While maintaining a critical scholarly attitude towards this topic, he argues that religious values can play an important role in mobilizing a broad cultural engagement with environmental issues. He is broadly sympathetic to the idea of encouraging religious movements to tackle climate change. You can read more about this part of his work on his research blog, sustainable china.
Over the past ten years, James Miller has published four books on Chinese religions, two edited volumes, and two monographs. He has also written many journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and book reviews. He is committed to maintaining a strong publishing profile, and passing on the fruits of his research in his undergraduate and graduate teaching program.
As part of his professional service, James Miller is actively involved in promoting the field of Daoist Studies, and runs the chief academic website for the field, www.daoiststudies.org.
In addition to his publishing, James 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. Media outlets have included the Washington Post, CTV Newsworld, CTV Canada AM, the Christian Science Monitor and others. He has also given guest lectures in Canada, the USA, Australia and China, including Sichuan University, Fudan University, Arizona State University, the United States Naval War College, and the University of Sydney.
You can also follow James Miller on Twitter, Linked In, Academia.edu and Facebook.