Christopher Moreman
California State University, East Bay, Philosophy, Faculty Member
- Comparative Religion, Religious Studies, History of Religion, Religion, Mysticism, New Religious Movements, and 36 morePopular Culture, Religion and Popular Culture, Paranormal, Parapsychology, History of psychical research and parapsychology, Religious Experience, Zombies, Horror Film, Folklore, Mythology And Folklore, Mythology, Psychical Research, History of Religions, Afterlife studies, Near-Death Experiences, Cultural History Of Ghosts, Horror, Carl Gustav Jung, Jung, Ghosts, Philosophy, Buddhism, Spiritualism, Occultism, Skepticism, Scepticism, Nineteenth Century Occultism, Nineteent Century Occultism, Death, Philosophy of Death, Death & Dying (Thanatology), Death Studies, Anthropology of Death, Comics and Graphic Novels, Monster Theory, and Monsters and Monster Theoryedit
A 4-Hour adventure set in the Land of Sweet Nothings (the creator’s Feywild domain); Legal for D&D Adventurers League Forgotten Realms characters levels 1-4. An elven woman, desperate for the return of her kidnapped daughter, coerces... more
A 4-Hour adventure set in the Land of Sweet Nothings (the creator’s Feywild domain); Legal for D&D Adventurers League Forgotten Realms characters levels 1-4. An elven woman, desperate for the return of her kidnapped daughter, coerces unsuspecting adventurers into a deceptive corner of the Feywild known as The Land of Sweet Nothings. In this, the first of the Sweet Nothings series, characters acclimate to their new surroundings and make a deal to help a pixie find a hat.
A Four-Hour Adventure for Tier 1 Characters. Optimized for APL 3.
WBW-DC-LSN-01: The Hat That Spat Rats
Maps and additional art included. This product also includes a printer-friendly version of the adventure.
This adventure is part 1 of a 4-part series taking characters from level 1 to level 5. Each adventure can be played individually, without playing the entire series.
A Four-Hour Adventure for Tier 1 Characters. Optimized for APL 3.
WBW-DC-LSN-01: The Hat That Spat Rats
Maps and additional art included. This product also includes a printer-friendly version of the adventure.
This adventure is part 1 of a 4-part series taking characters from level 1 to level 5. Each adventure can be played individually, without playing the entire series.
With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. The author argues that the zombie can be viewed as an object of meditation on death, a memento... more
With the increased popularity of zombies in recent years, scholars have considered why the undead have so captured the public imagination. The author argues that the zombie can be viewed as an object of meditation on death, a memento mori that makes the fact of mortality more approachable from what has been described as America’s “death-denying culture.” The existential crisis in zombie apocalyptic fiction brings to the fore the problem of humanity’s search for meaning in an increasingly global and secular world. Zombies are analyzed in the context of Buddhist thought, in contrast with social and religious critiques from other works.
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Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our relationship with death. Kastenbaum and Moreman show how various... more
Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our relationship with death. Kastenbaum and Moreman show how various ways that individual and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss. This landmark text draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process. Death, Society, and Human Experience was originally written by Robert Kastenbaum, a renowned scholar who developed one of the world’s first death education courses. Christopher Moreman, who has worked in the field of death studies for almost two decades specializing in afterlife beliefs and experiences, has updated this edition.
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Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to... more
Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companioncovers:
funerary and mourning practices;
concepts of the afterlife;
psychical issues associated with death and dying;
clinical and ethical issues;
philosophical issues;
death and dying as represented in popular culture.
This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, psychology, archaeology and religious studies, while including various religious traditions, including established religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature.
funerary and mourning practices;
concepts of the afterlife;
psychical issues associated with death and dying;
clinical and ethical issues;
philosophical issues;
death and dying as represented in popular culture.
This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, psychology, archaeology and religious studies, while including various religious traditions, including established religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature.
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Contemporary society tends to conceal death and the dying process from public view, seeking to erase them from our consciousness. This attitude of denial stands in great contrast to the approach of the great spiritual traditions of... more
Contemporary society tends to conceal death and the dying process from public view, seeking to erase them from our consciousness. This attitude of denial stands in great contrast to the approach of the great spiritual traditions of humanity, for which the dying process was an integral and often crucial part of our own spiritual practice. This volume offers a sample of reflections from scholars and practitioners on the theme of death and dying from scholars and practitioners, ranging from the Christian tradition to Hinduism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, while also touching on the themes of the afterlife and near-death experiences.
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We investigate the relationship between religious afterlife belief and fear of death in a Jewish population. Functionalist theories of religion often assert that afterlife belief serves as a buffer for death anxiety. Accordingly, those... more
We investigate the relationship between religious afterlife belief and fear of death in a Jewish population. Functionalist theories of religion often assert that afterlife belief serves as a buffer for death anxiety. Accordingly, those who attest to stronger, more orthodox, beliefs in an afterlife ought to indicate lower rates of death anxiety than those who do not have strongly held afterlife beliefs. From a wide-ranging survey of attitudes and experiences with death, we show that specific beliefs, intensity of belief, and orthodoxy of held beliefs play no significant role in the self-reported level of death anxiety in a Jewish population.
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Christopher M. Moreman and A. David Lewis present an overview of the themes and topics addressed in Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online age, including social media bullying and memorials, virtual communities of mourners, and... more
Christopher M. Moreman and A. David Lewis present an overview of the themes and topics addressed in Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online age, including social media bullying and memorials, virtual communities of mourners, and grief in gaming.
Research Interests: Death, Digital Media, Video Games, Death & Dying (Thanatology), Digital Culture, and 20 moreThanatology, Mourning, Science Fiction, Social Media, Bullying, Facebook, Twitter, Afterlife studies, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Thanatology - Death Studies, Grief (Psychology), Death and Dying, Mourning and Remembrance, Gaming, Facebook Studies, Battlestar Galactica, Cyber Bullying, Death, Grief, and Mourning, Grief and Loss, Grief, and Culture and death
This article brings into focus the misunderstood and oft-ignored pre-Islamic spirituality of, primarily, the Hejaz and their religious leaders, the kahins, often uncharitably translated as soothsayers. A combination of factors has limited... more
This article brings into focus the misunderstood and oft-ignored pre-Islamic spirituality of, primarily, the Hejaz and their religious leaders, the kahins, often uncharitably translated as soothsayers. A combination of factors has limited discussion of pre-Islamic religion, including the persistent rejection by Muslims of pre-Islamic history as a time of ignorance (jahiliyyah) and a Judaeo-Christian bias in Western scholarship. From the perspectives of anthropology and comparative religion, certain conclusions about pre-Islamic spirituality can be derived. Most important among these is that the pre-Islamic Arabs engaged in clearly religious practices revolving around the importance of the tribe and its members, living and dead. This article will hopefully spark a renewed interest in the study of the spirituality and religion of the pre-Islamic Arabs.
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The following paper examines the role of charismatic leadership across religious, political, and business leadership in order to come to terms with charisma, what is often described as an intangible quality. The term itself is derived... more
The following paper examines the role of charismatic leadership across religious, political, and business leadership in order to come to terms with charisma, what is often described as an intangible quality. The term itself is derived from a Greek term indicating divine favor, a notion that scholars have increasingly tried to move away from, or ignore, but from a systematic analysis of ways in which charisma manifests, the authors hope to bring the subject into a more defined relief.
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A confluence of increasing interest in popular culture as a source for religious inspiration and the growing interest, both popular and scholarly, in zombie-fiction bring together several possibilities for scholarship in the context of... more
A confluence of increasing interest in popular culture as a source for religious inspiration and the growing interest, both popular and scholarly, in zombie-fiction bring together several possibilities for scholarship in the context of religious studies. This paper will present one aspect of the zombie-craze in the light of Buddhist philosophy. The Buddha taught that the illusion of self-ish-ness, and resulting attachments, are the greatest hurdles to achieving nibbana. Through meditating on the decomposing corpse, Buddhists may come to realize the Ten Impurities of the Body, and so come to grips with the impermanence of the self. I will illustrate how George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, recognized as the watershed film of the modern zombie sub-genre, unintentionally conveys the Buddhist teachings of dukkha (suffering by attachments), anatta (no-self), and anicca (impermanence).