Daoism and ecology
Subtitle: ways within a cosmic landscape
By: edited by N.J. Girardot, James Miller, and Liu Xiaogan.
Contributors: Girardot, N. J.; Miller, James, 1968-; Liu, Xiaogan, 1947-
Series: Religions of the world and ecology
Publisher: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: Taoism; Ecology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / N. J. Girardot, James Miller, and Liu Xiaogan; title: Prologue : the Calabash scrolls / Stephen L. Field; title: Part I : Framing the issues; title: Daoism and deep ecology : fantasy and potentiality / Jordan Paper ; Ecological questions for Daoist thought : contemporary issues and ancient texts / Joanne D. Birdwhistell ; Nature as part of human culture in Daoism / Michael LaFargue ; Daoism and the quest for order / Terry F. Kleeman ; Sectional discussion : what can Daoism contribute to ecology? / James Miller; title: Part II : Ecological readings of Daoist texts; title: Daoist ecology : the inner tranformation : a study of the precepts of the early Daoist ecclesia / Kristofer Schipper ; Daoist concept of central harmony in the Scripture of great peace : human responsibility for the maladies of nature / Chi-tim Lai ; Mutual stealing among the three powers in the Scripture of unconscious unification / Zhang Jiyu and Li Yuanguo ; Ingesting the marvelous : the practitioner's relationship to nature according to Ge Hong / Robert Ford Campany ; Sectional discussion : what ecological themes are found in Daoist texts? / James Miller, Richard G. Wang, and Edward Davis; title: Part III : Daoism and ecology in a cultural context; title: Flowering apricot : environmental practice, folk religion, and Daoism / E. N. Anderson ; In search of dragons : the folk ecology of Fengshui / Stephen L. Field ; Introductory study on Daoist notions of wilderness / Thomas H. Hahn ; Salvation in the garden : Daoism and ecology / Jeffrey F. Meyer ; Sectional discussion : how successfully can we apply the concepts of ecology to Daoist cultural contexts? / John Patterson and James Miller; title: Part IV : Toward a Daoist environmental philosophy; title: From reference to deference : Daoism and the natural world / David L. Hall ; Local and the focal in realizing a Daoist world / Roger T. Ames ; Responsible non-action in a natural world : perspectives from the Neiye, Zhuangzi, and Daode jing / Russell Kirkland ; Metic intelligence or responsible non-action? Further reflections on the Zhuangzi, Daode jing, and Neiye / Lisa Raphals ; Non-action and the environment today : a conceptual and applied study of Laozi's philosophy / Liu Xiaogan ; Sectional discussion : what are the speculative implications of early Daoist texts for an environmental ethics? / Russell B. Goodman with James Miller; title: Part V : Practical ecological concerns in contemporary Daoism; title: Respecting the environment, or visualizing highest clarity / James Miller ; Declaration of the Chinese Daoist Association on Global Ecology / Zhang Jiyu ; Change starts small : Daoist practice and the ecology of individual lives / Liu Ming et al. ; Daoist environmentalism in the West : Ursula K. Le Guin's reception and transmission of Daoism / Jonathan R. Herman ; Sectional discussion : Daoism; title: a vital tradition for the contemporary ecological consciousness / James Miller; title: Epilogue : Dao song / Ursula K. Le Guin.