The Sage and the Way: Essays on Daoism

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Dominic Steavu (PhD, Stanford, 2010) is Associate Professor in Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. His research focuses on medieval Daoism and its intersections with medicine and Buddhism. He is the author of The Writ of the Three Sovereigns: From Local Lore to Institutional Daoism (2020) and the co-editor of Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions (2016).

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The Sage and the Way: Essays on Daoism brings together recent, cutting-edge work by leading figures in contemporary Daoist Studies in honor of one of the field's foremost scholars, Fabrizio Pregadio. The carefully curated essays are organized along four major thematic axes: Daoist traditions, inner worlds, textual forms, and comparative perspectives. They cover a range of topics from eschatology, ritual, poetry, canon formation, and Buddho-Daoist interchange to psychedelic substances, inner journeys, self-cultivation, and Internal Alchemy (Neidan).
This unique collection offers a vivid snapshot of the current state of Daoist Studies and an exciting vision of the field's future directions.

Contributors are: Nathan Sivin, Barbara Hendrischke, John Lagerwey, Vincent Goossaert, Dominic Steavu, Grégoire Espesset, T.H. Barrett, Benjamin Penny, Stephen Bokenkamp, Michael Lackner, Elena Valussi, Catherine Despeux, Stephen Eskildsen, and Livia Kohn.