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Welcome to the Daoist Studies Website

The Daoist Studies website contains scholarly information about Daoism, including books on Daoism, conferences, scholars, a bibliography and general resources for learning about China's indigenous, organized religion.

Items of note include:

• A call for papers for the Daoist Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion's annual meeting in Chicago, November 1-3, 2008 (Deadline extended to March 5)
• Details about the new Journal of Daoist Studies
• Details of the Fourth International Conference on Daoism in Action, and Grand Jiao Ceremony
• A list of recent publications in the field
• An ongoing collaborative web project containing an index of the Ming Zhengtong daozang with access to PDF facsimiles of the text and annotations made by members of the Daoist Studies community.
• A collection of video interviews with Euro-American Daoist practitioners, along with a message board for facilitating learning about the representation of Daoism in North American culture.

The website contains information on four areas that are important to Daoist Studies.

• The people section contains a database of over 400 current scholars and researchers involved in the study of Daoism. Academic scholars are invited to register for this database, which will give you the opportunity to communicate with other scholars and to become and active contributor to the site.
• The events section contains a listing of recent and forthcoming conferences of interest to those involved in Daoist Studies, plus other notices and book announcements.
• The resources section contains databases of academic courses and syllabi on Daoist studies, a bibliography database, a link to our Daozang project that aims to make available online information about the 1487 titles in the Ming Daoist canon, and a database of links to other WWW resources on Daoist Studies. Of particular interest also is the American Daoist Culvtivation website designed for teaching about the transmission and representation of Daoism in contemporary America.
• The articles section contains the research guide to Daoist Studies written by Livia Kohn, a short history of Daoism written by James Miller, book reviews, and some other basic information about Daoism.
• The AAR section is the online presence of the Daoist Studies consultation of the American Academy of Religion.

URL of this webpage: http://www.daoiststudies.org/index.php
Last updated: March 03, 2008 11:49:54. EST

Designed and edited by James Miller
Department of Religious Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
Canada K7L3N6