WELCOME to the website of Chris Mathews, a New Zealand-born writer, skeptic and lecturer based in Japan. His interests cover religion, philosophy, Japanese culture, education, politics, and travel.
Chris is the author of Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Radical Subculture (Praeger Publishing 2009), and also runs Philosophical Misadventures , a site dedicated to documenting some of the more contentious views of famous philosophers.
Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Radical Subculture (Praeger 2009) is a critical study of the modern Satanic religion/ideology, covering ethics, meta-ethics, critical thinking, philosophy of religion. It is released by Praeger Publishing, an imprint of Greenwood Publishing, on 28 February 2009.
See the Satanism page for more information.
The image used on the cover of Modern Satanism: Anatomy of a Radical Subculture is taken from the work The Key of Joy by artist Andrew Jones.
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A number of the Japanese Buddhist mummy photos have recently appeared in other publications.
First, a chance to brush up on your polszczyzna: Four images were republished in this article in the Polish edition of Focus magazine in September 2008. The article includes this gallery containing two photos by Chris …
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Chris’ other site is Philosophical Misadventures, an ongoing project that chronicles and assesses some of the more questionable views and opinions of famous historical philosophers. The site covers issues such as race, women, and sex …
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In November 2008, Chris presented the paper Sokushinbutsu: Esoteric Buddhism and the Ethics of Altruistic Suicide [pdf] at the Third International Applied Ethics Conference, Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University.
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