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ESKILDSEN, Stephen Edward

Professor

Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University

■ Academic Background

1.	1990/09～1994/11	〔Doctoral course〕 Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia, Completed, Doctor of Philosophy
2.	1987/09～1989/11	〔Master degree program〕 Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia, Completed, Master of Arts
3.	1984/09～1986/06	Devision of Social Sciences (History), College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University, Graduated, Bachelor
4.	1981/09～1983/05	Major undeclared, California Lutheran College, Unfinished

■ #Professional Background

1.	2013/05～2014/07	Visiting Research Fellow, Religious Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum
2.	2010/08～	Professor, Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
3.	1998/08～2003/07	Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
4.	1997/10～1998/06	Postdoctoral Fellow, Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
5.	1994/09～1995/06	Assistant Professor (1-year appointment), Religious Studies, University of Saskatchewan
6.	1988/07～1990/06	Teaching Assistant, Japanese, The University of British Columbia
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■ #Books and Articles

1.	Book	Daoism, Meditation, and the Wonders of Serenity: From the Latter Han Dynasty (25-220) to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) (Single) 2015/12
2.	Book	The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters (Single) 2004/01
3.	Book	Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion (Single) 1998/10
4.	Article	“Debating what Lü Dongbin Practiced: Why did Yuan Daoist Miao Shanshi Denounce the Zhong-Lü Texts?” T’oung Pao 102(4-5) (Single) 2016
5.	Article	“Red Snakes and Angry Queen Mothers: Hallucinations and Epiphanies in Medieval Taoist Meditation” Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist Meditation (Single) 2014
6.	Article	“Asceticism” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions (Single) 2012
7.	Article	“Wu Shouyang, Wu Zhenyang and Liu Huayang: Their Interpretation and Criticism of Buddhism” Studies on Quanzhen Daoism: Volume Two (Single) 2011
8.	Article	“Death, Immortality and Spirit Liberation in Northern Song Taoism: The Hagiographical Accounts of Zhao Daoyi.” The People and the Dao: New Studies of Chinese Religions in Honour of Prof. Daniel L. Overmyer (Single) 2009
9.	Article	“Neidan Methods for Opening the Gate of Heaven.” Internal Alchemy: Self, Society, and the Quest for Immortality. (Single) 2009
10.	Article	“Do Immortals Kill?: The Controversy Surrounding Lü Dongbin.” Journal of Daoist Studies 1 (Single) 2008
11.	Article	“Some Troubles and Perils of Taoist Meditation.” Monumenta Serica 56 (Single) 2008
12.	Article	“Mystical Ascent and Out-of-Body Experience in Medieval Daoism.” Journal of Chinese Religions 35 (Single) 2007
13.	Article	“Emergency Death Meditations for Internal Alchemists.” T’oung Pao 92 (Single) 2006
14.	Article	“Parallel Themes in Chinese Nestorianism and Medieval Taoist Religion.” In Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia (Single) 2006
15.	Article	“Parallel Themes in Chinese Nestorianism and Medieval Taoist Religion.” In Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia (Single) 2006
16.	Article	“Neidan Master Chen Pu's Nine Stages of Transformation.” Monumenta Serica 49 (Single) 2001
17.	Article	“Seeking Signs of Proof: Visions and Other Trance Phenomena in Early Quanzhen Taoism.” Journal of Chinese Religions 29 (Single) 2001
18.	Article	“Early Quanzhen Daoist Views on the Causes of Disease and Death.” B.C. Asian Review 6 (Single) 1992
19.	Article	“Christology and Soteriology in the Chinese Nestorian Texts” B.C. Asian Review 5 (Single) 1991
20.	Article	“Asceticism in Ch’üan-chen Taoism” B.C. Asian Review no.3/4,pp.153-191 (Single) 1990
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■ #Academic Conference Presentation

1.	2016/11	“Bodhidharma in the Daoist Canon, Neidan Literature and Sectarian Hagiography.” (American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting)
2.	2016/03	“Has the Fontanel Opened?: Wu Shouyang Exposes a Charlatan.” (Japan-U.S.A Daoist Studies Conference)
3.	2015/08	“Bodhidharma: Bringer of the True Dharma to China.” (21st World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions)
4.	2015/06	“Self-Cultivation in Quanzhen Daoism: According to the Recorded Sayings of Yin Zhiping” (The Varieties of Self-Cultivation in Asian Religions)
5.	2014/11	“How to Stop Eating: Natural and Intentional Approaches in the Taiping jing, Laozi Xiang’er zhu and Xiandao jing.” (Repainting the Style of Medieval China: Multiple Perspective Landscapes of Knowledge, Faith and Society)
6.	2014/03	“Changing Gender, Returning to Childhood, or Acquiring the Marks of the Great Man: Taoist Modes of Sexual Bodily Alteration.” (Body Trouble: Religious Boundaries for Sex, Gender, and Corporeality)
7.	2013/11	“Cultivating the Compassionate Taoist Dharma Body: The Taishang laojun xuwu ziran benqi jing and the Taixuan zhenyi benji jing.” (Modes of Interreligious Engagement: Buddhism and other Religious Traditions in Medieval China)
8.	2012/11	“Serenity and the Facilitation of Womb Breathing: A Brief Discussion of the Taixing jing zhu” (2012 Meeting of the Southeast Early China Roundtable)
9.	2012/05	Concerning the Criticisms of the Zhong-Lü Scriptures in the Record of the Divine Transformations and Wondrous Penetrations of August Lord Pure Radiance
10.	2011/11	“Wu Shouyang, Wu Zhenyang and Liu Huayang: Their Interpretation and Criticism of Buddhism” (2011 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting)
11.	2011/10	“Isolated Contemplation and the Cultivation of Serenity in the Taiping jing Fragments and the Laozi Xiang’er zhu” (2011 Meeting of the Southeast Early China Roundtable)
12.	2011/01	Wu Shouyang, Wu Zhenyang and Liu Huayang: Their Interpretation and Criticism of Buddhism
13.	2010/11	“Entering the Nine Rooms: Isolated Contemplation as described in the Taishang hunyuan zhenlu and the Taiping jing” (Southeast Early China Roundtable)
14.	2010/06	“The Reclining Meditation Method of the Xiandao jing.” (Daoism and the Contemporary World)
15.	2010/05	“Red Snakes and Angry Queen Mothers: Hallucinations and Epiphanies in Medieval Taoist Meditation” (Cultural Histories of Meditation)
16.	2010/03	“The Plain Way of the Xiandao jing: Rigors and Wonders” (adjunct session of the Southeast Early China Roundtable)
17.	2008/11	Chronicling the Dao: A Critical Appraisal of Kristofer Schipper and Franciscus Verellen’s The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang (American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting)
18.	2007/11	"Some Comments on the Textual History of the Dacheng jieyao” (“Quanzhen Daoism in Modern Chinese Society and Culture,”)
19.	2007/08	"Neidan Methods for Opening the Gate of Heaven" (“Internal Alchemy: Sex, Self and Society in the Daoist Tradition.”)
20.	2006/11	“Mystical Ascent and Out-of-Body Experience in Medieval Daoism” (2006 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting)
21.	2006/05	“The Troubles and Perils of Daoist Meditation” (Third International Conference on Daoism and the Contemporary World)
22.	2005/11	“Do Immortals Kill?: The Controversy Surrounding Lü Dongbin.” (2005 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting)
23.	2005/05	“Internal Alchemical Swordsmanship: Martial Art, Therapeutic Ritual or Psychological Metaphor?” (International Conference on Daoism in Mt. Tiantai and Zhejiang)
24.	2004/06	“Entering a Womb, Changing the Dwelling and Repelling the Killer Demons: Lower Alternatives to Supreme Inner Alchemical Liberation.” (Daoist Studies Today: An International Conference)
25.	2003/06	“Cultivating Clarity and Purity: The Core of Quanzhen Taoism.” (Daoism and the Contemporary World: An International Conference on Daoist Studies)
26.	2003/05	“Parallel Themes in Chinese Nestorianism and Medieval Taoist Religion.” (Research on Nestorianism in China: International Conference)
27.	2002/11	“Taoism and the Chinese Nestorian Texts.” (Southeast Early China Roundtable)
28.	2002/09	“Early Quanzhen Taoist views on Death and Dying.” (Religious Thought and Lived Religion in China: A Conference in Honour of Prof. Daniel L. Overmyer on His Retirement)
29.	2001/11	“Neidan Master Chen Pu's Nine Stages of Transformation” (Chinese Religions Group the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting)
30.	2001/11	“Seeking Signs of Proof: Visions and Other Special Trance Phenomena in Early Quanzhen Taoism” (History of Religions session at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) Annual Meeting)
31.	2000/03	“Seeking Signs of Proof: Visions and Other Special Trance Phenomena in Early Quanzhen Taoism,” (History of Religions session at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) Annual Meeting)
32.	1998/05	“Religious Specialists in the Hakka and She Villages of Northeastern Guangdong,” (Ethnography in China Today: A Critical Assessment of Methods and Results)
33.	1997/11	“Denunciations of Heretical Asceticism in the Scripture of the Jade Purity” (American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting)
34.	1996/06	“Drug Recipes for 'Grain Avoidance' in the Lingbao wufu xu” (American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting)
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■ #Academic Society Memberships

1.	2010～	Japan Religious Studies Association
2.	2007～	日本道教学会
3.	1993～	American Academy of Religion

■ #Academic Awards

1.	2013/05	Käte Hamburger Kolleg Visiting Research Fellowship
2.	2012/08	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga North Callahan Distinguished Professor of Religion
3.	2010/06	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Faculty Research Grant
4.	2002/08	University of Tennessee at Chattanooga UC Foundation Professorship
5.	2001/06	National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend