Dr. Stephen Eskildsen
UC Foundation Associate Professor
232F Holt Hall
(423)425-4655
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DR. STEPHEN ESKILDSEN has a Ph.D. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia (1994). His specialty is Taoist religion. He was recently named U.C. Foundation Associate Professor, has been teaching at UTC since 1998. Since coming to UTC he has published two books with SUNY Press, Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion and The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters, as well as four articles. He has presented papers in China, Austria, and Canada, as well as several in the United States. His current research is on Taoist internal alchemy from the mid-Tang down to the Northern Song period. Courses taught include Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, Mysticism East and West, and Religions of the East.
