Symposium on

Exorcism in Religious Daoism

08. December 2009- 10. December 2009

hosted by
Seminar of Sinology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

08.12.2009
09:30-09:45

Introduction

10:15-11:00

Philip Clart:

Exorcism in the mirror of Ming-fiction

11:30-12:15

David Mozina:

Different types of Wulei fa in the province of

Hunan

12:45-14:00

lunch

14:00-14:45

Chang Chaojan:

Exorcism in Early Daoist Funeral Ritual

15:15-16:00

Florian C. Reiter:

Daoist Thunder Magic and the Elimination of

Obnoxious Spirits, With reference to A Corpus of
Daoist Rituals ( ) and exorcist rituals
in Northern Taiwan

16:15-17:00

L Pengzhi:

Scriptural recitation and exorcism in early

Daoism

09.12.2009
09:00-09:45

Tam Wei Lun

Exorcism in Buddhism

10:15-11:00

Terry Kleeman:

A Comparison of Exorcism in the Early Medical

and Daoist Traditions

11:30-12:15

Lee Fongmao:

Expelling Plagues: the replacement of the ritual

performance of the tour of inspection

12:45-14:00

lunch

14:00-14:45

John Lagerwey:

A grammatical analysis of a Daoist exorcism

15:15-16:00

Stephen Bokenkamp:

Exorcism Ritually Transubstantiated: The Case of

the Lingbao Scriptures and the Dongyuan
shenzhou jing

16:15-17:00

Volker Olles:

On the Use of Substitutes in the Fayan tan Ritual

Tradition

10.12.2009
09:00-09:45

Lin Chenyan:

The exorcist methods in the Daoist jiao-ritual in

Northern Taiwan

10:15-11:00

Hsieh Tsunghui:

Knife-ladder and the Registers:

investigation into the Fengshan Xian

11:30-12:15

Liu Yi:

Exorcism in medieval China

12:45-14:00

lunch

14:00-14:45

Hsieh Shuwei:

Ling-pao and its exorcist side

15:15-16:00

Wei-ping Lin:

Cooking oil to purify houses (zhuyou jingwu,

): a dialogue between religious studies and
anthropology

Conference languages are English and Chinese

Venue: Humboldt-University, Berlin
Unter den Linden 6, Room nr. 2103