"Daoist tradition and modern subjectivities: transformations of Daoist practice in China and the West"
A talk by David Palmer and Elijah Siegler
We will compare how Daoist body cultivation and meditation practices have been reformulated and re-appropriated in the form of secularized "qigong" in socialist China and in the United States; the global networks of qigong practitioners; and the interactions between these networks and traditional monastic Daoists in China.
The speakers: David Palmer is visiting assistant professor at the Ecole francaise d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his BA in anthropology at McGill University, Canada, and his PhD in religious studies at the Sorbonne (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) in 2002. Before moving to Hong Kong in 2004 he was the Eileen Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His specialty is the history and anthropology of religion in 20th-century China. The English version of his book "Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and the Politics of Religion in China, 1949-1999", will be released next year.
Elijah Siegler is Assistant Professor of American religion at the College of Charleston, North Carolina, USA. After completing his BA at Harvard University, he obtained his PhD in religious studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2003, on the topic of Daoism in America. His current areas of research and teaching are contemporary American religion, Asian religion in America, and religion and popular culture. He is currently completing a textbook on New Religious Movements.
The Minutes of the last talks will be sent later.
No meeting on Tuesday 12 July!
Next meeting (264th) - Tuesday 19 July 2005
"Daoist tradition and modern subjectivities: transformations of Daoist
practice in China and the West"
A talk by David Palmer and Elijah Siegler
We will compare how Daoist body cultivation and meditation practices have
been reformulated and re-appropriated in the form of secularized "qigong"
in socialist China and in the United States; the global networks of qigong
practitioners; and the interactions between these networks and traditional
monastic Daoists in China.
The speakers: David Palmer is visiting assistant professor at the Ecole
francaise d'Extr?me-Orient (EFEO) Centre at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong. He obtained his BA in anthropology at McGill University, Canada, and
his PhD in religious studies at the Sorbonne (Ecole Pratique des Hautes
Etudes) in 2002. Before moving to Hong Kong in 2004 he was the Eileen
Barker Fellow in Religion and Contemporary Society at the London School of
Economics and Political Science. His specialty is the history and
anthropology of religion in 20th-century China. The English version of his
book "Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and the Politics of Religion in China,
1949-1999", will be released next year.
Elijah Siegler is Assistant Professor of American religion at the College
of Charleston, North Carolina, USA. After completing his BA at Harvard
University, he obtained his PhD in religious studies at the University of
California at Santa Barbara in 2003, on the topic of Daoism in America. His
current areas of research and teaching are contemporary American religion,
Asian religion in America, and religion and popular culture. He is
currently completing a textbook on New Religious Movements.
The Minutes of the last talks will be sent later.
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