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Is Green the New Red?: The Role of Religion in Creating a Sustainable China

Author(s) -

James Miller

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

nature and culture

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.358

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 1558-5468

pISSN - 1558-6073

DOI - 10.3167/nc.2013.080302

Subject(s) - patriotism , china , harmony (color) , environmental ethics , sustainable development , heaven , utopia , nationalism , beauty , political science , sociology , philosophy , law , politics , theology , art , visual arts

The Chinese Daoist Association has embarked upon an ambitious agenda to promote Daoism as China’s “green religion”. This new construction of a “green Daoism” differs, however, from both traditional Chinese and modern Western interpretations of the affinity between Daoism and nature. In promoting Daoism as a green religion, the Chinese Daoist Association is not aiming to restore some mythical utopia of humans living in harmony with nature, but instead to support a nationalist agenda of patriotism and scientific development. At the same time, as I shall argue, this agenda may deliver positive benefits in the form of protecting the local environments around important sacred sites that are located in areas of outstanding natu-

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