Introduction

Notes on Terms

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Framing the Issues
“‘Daoism’ and ‘Deep Ecology’: Fantasy and Potentiality”
Jordan Paper

“Ecological Questions for Daoist Thought: Contemporary Issues and Ancient Texts”
Anne 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

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 (Zhonghe) in the Scripture of Great Peace: Human Responsibility for the Maladies of Nature”
Lai Chi-tim

“‘Mutual Stealing Among the Three Powers’ in the Scripture of Unconscious Unification”
Zhang Jiyu and Li Yuanguo

“Ingesting the Marvelous: The Daoist’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 Ned Davis

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 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

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

Practical Ecological Concerns in Contemporary Daoism
“Respecting the Environment/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, Rene Navarro, Linda Varone, Vincent Chu, Daniel Seitz, and Weidong Lu”
Compiled by Livia Kohn

“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

Notes on Contributors

Glossary

Index