John Lagerwey Collection

Member of the Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient (1977-2000), Chair Professor of Daoism and Chinese Religions at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (2000-2011); Research Professor of Chinese Studies in the Centre of East Asian Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2011-2020). He was chief editor of some 40 volumes of ethnographic research and of eight volumes (Brill) on periods of paradigm shift in Chinese religious history. He also published extensively on the history of Daoist ritual and on religion in China more generally. The collection is made up of letters between Lagerwey and his family. The letters include discussions of family life. They are noteworthy for their discussion of Lagerwey’s evolving religious views of his experiences and work in graduate school and as a scholar of Chinese cultural and religious traditions. Note also [url=https://archives.calvin.edu/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=442&q=coll%2F488]COLL/488[/url], Walter Lagerwey Collection, 1849-2005. It provides context for John Lagerwey’s life, work, and thinking, including extensive material by his father Walter Lagerwey, as well as material by his mother Wilma Ditmar Lagerwey and his sister Marcia Lagerwey.

Note written by Will Katerberg