Mr J.C. (Christian) Greer MA
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Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Geschiedenis van de Hermetische filosofie en verwante stromingen
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Oude Turfmarkt
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1012 GC Amsterdam
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J.C.Greer@uva.nl
Background
Christian Greer holds a B.A. from Boston University's
University's Professor's Program, a M.A. in Hermetic Philosophy
and Related Currents from the University of Amsterdam, a M.Div.
from Harvard Divinity School, and is currently working on a
Ph.D. at the GHF. His academic interests include the interface
between anti-authoritarianism and esotericism, the "Beat
generation", Type-3 & Post-Anarchism, and underground
publishing. His non-academic life is devoted to the free skool
movement (particularly Corvid College), nature (natura
naturans), zine making, and "the ludic".
His Ph.D. research concerns the complexities, disjunctions,
and shared assumptions within the formation and development of
the Post WWII North American Counter-Culture. Paying particular
attention to Brion Gysin, Alan Watts, William Burroughs, and
Timothy Leary, his research analyzes how the interplay between
esoteric discoursesand radical politics created the conditions
for the cultural, religious, and political paradigm shifts of
the 1960s and beyond.
2013
- J.C. Greer (2013). 'The Only Law We Live by is Fuck'um if They Can't Take a Joke': The Church of the SubGenius' Mailbomb to Bob Black. In Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschap (NGG) conference.
- J.C. Greer (2013). Occult Origins: Hakim Bey’s Ontological Post-Anarchism. Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2013 (2), 166-187.[go to publisher's site]
2013
- J.C. Greer (2013). Deep ecology and the study of esotericism. In E. Asprem & K. Granholm (Eds.), Contemporary esotericism (Gnostica: texts and interpretations) (pp. 287-308). Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd..
2010
- J.C. Greer (2010). Pentti Linkola’s Can Life Prevail?: A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis [Review of the book Pentti Linkola’s Can Life Prevail?: A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis]. Environmental Ethics, 32(3).
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