Table of Contents

Preface Michael D. Coe, Yale University 1. Introduction Joseph Gelfer 2. The 2012 Phenomenon: New Uses for an Ancient Mayan Calendar Robert K. Sitler, Stetson University 3. Maya Prophesies, 2012 and the Problematic Nature of Truth Mark Van Stone, Southwestern College 4. Mayanism Comes of (New) Age John W. Hoopes, Kansas University 5. The 2012 Milieu: Hybridity, Diversity and Stigmatised Knowledge Peter Lentini, Monash University 6. Chichen Itza and Chicken Little: How Pseudosciences Embraced 2012 Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State University 7. Roland Emmerich's 2012: A Simple Truth Andrea Austin, Wilfrid Laurier University 8. The 2012 Movement, Visionary Arts and Psytrance Culture Graham St John, University of Regina 9. In a Prophetic Voice: Australasia 2012 Joseph Gelfer 10. Approaching 2012: Modern Misconceptions vs. Reconstructing Ancient Maya Perspectives John Major Jenkins, independent scholar

About the Author

Joseph Gelfer recently submitted a PhD in religious studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is currently an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia. Joseph is the author of Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy (Equinox, 2009) and founding and current editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality.

Reviews

'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