- Preface [Lawrence E. Sullivan]
- Series Foreword [Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim]
- Note on the Romanization of Chinese Terms
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction [N. J. Girardot, James Miller and Liu Xiaogan]
- Prologue: The Calabash Scrolls [Stephen L. Field]
- I. Framing the Issues
- “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]
- II. Ecological Readings of Daoist Texts
- Daoist Ecology: The Inner Transformation. A Study of the Precepts of the Early Daoist Ecclesia [Kristofer Schipper]
- The 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]
- III. Daoism and Ecology in a Cultural Context
- Flowering Apricot: Environmental Practice, Folk Religion, and Daoism [E. N. Anderson]
- In Search of Dragons: The Folk Ecology of Fengshui [Stephen L. Field]
- An 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]
- IV. Toward a Daoist Environmental Philosophy
- From Reference to Deference: Daoism and the Natural World [David L. Hall]
- The 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]
- V. Practical Ecological Concerns in Contemporary Daoism
- Respecting the Environment, or Visualizing Highest Clarity [James Miller]
- A Declaration of the Chinese Daoist Association on Global Ecology [Zhang Jiyu]
- Change Starts Small: Daoist Practice and the Ecology of Individual Lives. A Roundtable Discussion with Liu Ming, René Navarro, Linda Varone, Vincent Chu, Daniel Seitz, and Weidong Lu [Compiled by Livia Kahn]
- Daoist Environmentalism in the West: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Reception and Transmission of Daoism [Jonathan R. Herman]
- Sectional Discussion: Daoism—A Vital Tradition for the Contemporary Ecological Consciousness [James Miller]
- Epilogue: Dao Song [Ursula K. Le Guin]
- Bibliography on Daoism and Ecology [James Miller, Jorge Highland, and Liu Xiaogan with Belle B. L. Tan and Zhong Hongzhi]
- Notes on Contributors
- Glossary of Chinese Characters
- Index
RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND ECOLOGY
Daoism and Ecology
Ways within a Cosmic Landscape
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$32.50 • £28.95 • €29.95
ISBN 9780945454304
Publication Date: 09/30/2001
552 pages
6 x 9 inches
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