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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0cm">A quick message to let you know about my new book that may be
of interest called, “2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse”:</p>

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margin-left:0cm"><a href="http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=397">http://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=397</a></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0cm">December 21 2012 is believed to mark the end of the thirteenth
B&#39;ak&#39;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.</p>

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margin-left:0cm">Kind regards,</p>

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margin-left:0cm">Joseph</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0cm">Dr Joseph Gelfer</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0cm">Editor, Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality</p>

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margin-left:0cm">.:: <a href="http://www.jmmsweb.org">www.jmmsweb.org</a> ::.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0cm">Author, Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities
and the Problem of Patriarchy</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0cm">.:: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/desl9s">http://tinyurl.com/desl9s</a> ::.</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0cm">Adjunct Research Associate</p>

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margin-left:0cm">School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:3.0pt;
margin-left:0cm">.:: <a href="http://www.gelfer.net">www.gelfer.net</a> ::.</p>