2012

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Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse

By: Joseph Gelfer

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Hardcover | 2 December 2011 | Edition Number 1

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212 Pages

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21 December 2012 is believed to mark the end of the thirteenth Bak'tun cycle in the Long Count of the Mayan calendar. A growing number of people believe this date to mark the end of the world or, at the very least, the end of the world as we know it: a shift to a new form of global consciousness. 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse brings together for the first time a range of scholarly analyses on the 2012 phenomena grounded in various disciplines including religious studies, anthropology, Mayan studies, cultural studies and the social sciences.

2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse will show readers how much of the 2012 phenomenon is based on the historical record, and how much is contemporary fiction. It will reveal to readers the landscape of the modern apocalyptic imagination, the economics of the spiritual marketplace, the commodification of countercultural values, and the cult of celebrity. This collection brings much-needed academic rigour and documentation to a subject of rapidly increasing interest to diverse religious and other communities in these crucial closing years before we experience what will be either a profound leap in the human story or, less dramatically, just another mark in time.

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'We have only months to go to the supposed end of the Maya Long Count calendar on 21 December 2012, so this compilation of analysis, from the spiritual to the apocalyptic to the countercultural, comes just in time to help us make sense of it all. Edited by Joseph Gelfer, who's a Melbourne-based academic, journal editor and author, these essays from nine contributors, himself included, entreat us to consider this phenomenon from a sane, historically informed viewpoint.' NEXUS Magazine, April-May 2012

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