2012
Subtitle: reflections on a mark in time
By: edited by Joseph Gelfer.
Contributors: Gelfer, Joseph.
Publisher: Equinox Pub.; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Oakville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781845536398; 9781845536404
Subjects: Two thousand twelve, A.D; Twenty-first century -- Forecasts; Prophecies; End of the world
Genres: Forecasts
Other titles: Twenty twelve
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Joseph Gelfer; title: The 2012 phenomenon: new uses for an ancient Maya calendar (Robert K. Sitler); title: Maya prophecies, 2012 and the problematic nature of truth / Mark van Stone; title: Mayanism comes of (new) age ? John. W. Hoopes; title: The 2012 milieu? hybridity, diversity and stigmatised knowledge / Pete Lentini; title: Chich?n itz? and chicken little: how pseudosciences embraced 2012 / Kristine Larsen; title: Roland Emmerich's 2012: a simple truth / Andrea Austin; title: The 2012 movement, visionary arts and psytrance culture / Graham St John; title: In a prophetic voice: Australasia 2012 / Joseph Gelfer; title: Approaching 2012: modern misconceptions vs. reconstructing ancient maya perspectives / John Major Jenkins.