TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gelfer,Joseph
TI  - 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse
SN  - 9781317544142
AV  - BF1999 
U1  - 001.9 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Hoboken
PB  - Taylor and Francis
KW  - Two thousand twelve, A.D
KW  - Twenty-first century
KW  - Forecasts
KW  - Prophecies
KW  - End of the world
KW  - REFERENCE / Questions & Answers
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The 2012 Phenomenon: New Uses for an Ancient Maya Calendar; 3 Maya Prophecies, 2012 and the Problematic Nature of Truth; 4 Mayanism Comes of (New) Age; 5 The 2012 Milieu? Hybridity, Diversity and Stigmatised Knowledge; 6 Chichén Itzá and Chicken Little: How Pseudosciences Embraced 2012; 7 Roland Emmerich's 2012: A Simple Truth; 8 The 2012 Movement, Visionary Arts and Psytrance Culture; 9 In a Prophetic Voice: Australasia 2012; 10 Approaching 2012: Modern Misconceptions versus Reconstructing Ancient Maya PerspectivesNotes; Index
N2  - 21 December 2012 was believed to mark the end of the thirteenth B''ak''tun cycle in the Long Count of the Mayan calendar. Many people believed this date to mark the end of the world or, at the very least, a shift to a new form of global consciousness. Examining how much of the phenomenon is based on the historical record and how much is contemporary fiction, the book explores the landscape of the modern apocalyptic imagination, the economics of the spiritual marketplace, the commodification of countercultural values, and the cult of celebrity
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