Teaching the Daode Jing / edited by Gary Delaney DeAngelis and Warren G. Frisina.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeAngelis, Gary Delaney, 1943-

Frisina, Warren G., 1954-

Series:

Teaching religious studies series.

Teaching religious studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laozi. Dao de jing.

Laozi.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question of how to teach the Daode Jing haunts a growing number of non-specialists who find themselves called upon for either curricular or intellectual reasons to teach it. This book is designed to provide access to contemporary scholarship and pedagogical strategies that can be used when introducing this confounding text.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: Approaching the Daode Jing; Third-Person and First-Person Approaches to the Study of the Laozi; The Dao and the Field: Exploring an Analogy; The Daode Jing and Comparative Philosophy; Mysticism in the Daode Jing; The Daode Jing in Practice; Imagine Teaching the Daode Jing!; PART II: Recent Scholarship and Teaching the Daode Jing; My Way: Teaching the Daode Jing at the Beginning of a New Millenium; The Reception of Laozi; Hermeneutics and Pedagogy: Methodological Issues in Teaching the Daode Jing

Hermeneutics and Pedagogy: Gimme That Old-Time HistoricismSelected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-045030-4

1-281-85191-4

0-19-971572-6

9786611851910

1-4356-4237-6

OCLC:

922954132