China's Green Religion: Daoism and the Quest for a Sustainable Future

✍ Scribed by James Miller

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 226
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In China’s Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients individuals toward a holistic understanding of religion and nature. Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature, Daoism fosters a “green” subjectivity and agency that transforms what it means to live a flourishing life on earth.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Religion, Modernity, and Ecology
2. The Subjectivity of Nature
3. Liquid Ecology
4. The Porosity of the Body
5. The Locative Imagination
6. The Political Ecology of the Daoist Body
7. From Modernity to Sustainability
8. From Sustainability to Flourishing
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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