How Ancient Daoist Wisdom Can Help Us Live Our Best Life

Please join us for our next OCI Public Talk where we're delighted to welcome the leading expert in the field of American Daoism, Professor Elijah Siegler, who will deliver a talk on how ancient Daoist wisdom can help people live their best lives. 

Further information about the talk will be published here soon. 

Please register for the talk here on Eventbrite. 

About the speaker: 

Elijah is Professor of Religious Studies at College of Charleston, a public university in South Carolina, USA, where he teaches classes on Religions of China and Japan, The Ancient Chinese Secret to Happiness, The Daoist Tradition, Asian Religions in America, New Religious Movements, and many others. He is the editor of Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order (Baylor University Press, 2016) and the author of New Religious Movements  (Prentice-Hall, 2006). He is the leading expert in the field of American Daoism, and has lectured and published widely on that field, including the award-winning book Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and Predicament of Modern Spirituality (University of Chicago Press, 2017, co-authored with David A. Palmer). His research on American Daoism has been cited in venues such as Andrew Henry’s YouTube series Religion for Breakfast and Stephen Prothero’s best-selling textbook Religion Matters.