How can Daoism, China’s indigenous faith, supply us the cultured, moral, political, and non secular instruments to deal with the basis motives of our ecological main issue and build a sustainable destiny? In China’s eco-friendly faith, James Miller exhibits how Daoism orients members towards a holistic realizing of faith and nature. Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature, Daoism fosters a “green” subjectivity and corporation that transforms what it potential to stay a flourishing lifestyles on earth.

Through a groundbreaking reconstruction of Daoist philosophy and faith, Miller argues for 4 key, eco-friendly insights: a imaginative and prescient of nature as a subjective energy that informs human lifestyles; an anthropological notion of the porous physique in keeping with a feeling of qi flowing via landscapes and people; a convention of realizing based at the event of transformative strength in particular landscapes and topographies; and a cultured and ethical sensibility in line with an affective sensitivity to how the area pervades the physique and the physique pervades the realm. Environmentalists fight to elevate awareness for his or her reason, Miller argues, simply because their activism depends on a quasi-Christian inspiration of “saving the earth.” as a substitute, environmentalists should still combine nature and tradition extra seamlessly, cultivating via a latest highbrow vocabulary a compelling imaginative and prescient of ways the earth materially and spiritually helps human flourishing.