2012 : Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse.
Title:
2012 : Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse.
Author:
Gelfer, Joseph.
ISBN:
9781317544142
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (216 pages)
Contents:
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 Perspectives -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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