REL 3340 - Exploring Daoism

3 Credits

Who are Laozi and Zhuangzi? What does Ultimate Nothingness mean? What are the techniques of immortality? This course explores the philosophies, political ideals, and techniques of cultivation of an immortal body in both philosophical Daoism and religious Daoism. The methodologies of the historical, contextual, and textual analysis will be applied in the study of Daoism.