JOSEPH GELFER

A good day talking about 2012 on the radio today. This morning I went into the Triple R studio in Melbourne and spoke on the show Spoke, hosted at the moment by Ginger Briggs.

And then this afternoon I did a phone-in across the other side of the nation on ABC Perth radio, for the show Afternoon, hosted by Gillian O’Shaughnessy.

Great to be able to get a balanced message out about 2012.

Francophones, here’s the word at swissinfo.ch on 2012 from Jean-François Mayer, director of Religioscope, which very sensibly links to my book 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse.

2012: la fin du monde ou le salut?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial:

Joseph Gelfer, Independent Open Access Book Publishing 101 (pp. 1-3)

Articles:

Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey, Holiness Sex: Conservative Christian Sex Practices as Acts of Sanctification (pp. 4-19)

Samuel Tongue, Scripted Bodies: Reading the Spectacle of Jacob Wrestling the Angel (pp. 20-37)

Reviews:

Alison Jasper, Review of Björn Krondorfer, Male Confessions: Intimate Revelations and the Religious Imagination (pp. 38-40)

Ilya Merlin, Review of Kent Brintnall, Ecce Homo: The-Male-Body-In-Pain as Redemptive Figure (pp. 41-44)

Joanne Ella Parsons, Review of Richard Stott, Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in 19th Century America (pp. 45-46)

Joseph Gelfer, Review of Erik Sidenvall, The Making of Manhood Among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, c.1890–c.1914 and Yvonne Maria Werner, Christian Masculinity: Men and Religion in Northern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries (pp. 47-49)

Brett Krutzsch, Review of Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey, Between a Man and a Woman? Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage (pp. 50-52)

The Morning Delivery has gathered some scholarly soundbites about 2012, including a handful of my 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse friends (and me):

Will December 21, 2012 Really be the End of the World as We Know It? – The Morning Delivery

I have a spot to talk about The Masculinity Conspiracy at the Sustainable Living Festival, tentatively scheduled for 11.15 am on Sunday, 19th February.

Details are now locked in for my talk at Rainbow Serpent Festival about The Masculinity Conspiracy: Saturday, 28 January, 2-3:30 pm in the Inner Realm Workshop Space (Lifestyle Village).

The folks over at The Conversation asked me to write a short introduction to 2012 in an Aussie context, and here it is:

2012 cometh: how to prepare for the apocalypse

This is one of the panels from Entheogenesis Australis last month in which I tried my very best to be optimistic about 2012.

Experiential journalist Rak Razam hosts a panel discussion at Entheogenesis Australis on the 2012 date and the implications for entheogenic culture in the year ahead. Is there a ‘strange attractor’ at the End of Time that entheogens have been presaging? What do the plants and indigenous cultures say about this critical juncture in time? Can we #Occupy our Hearts and lend that energy to the social movements transforming the world? Should we prepare for the apocalypse, or awakening? Are we a culture ready to step forward into our local communities and facilitate change, and can we make a difference? If in plants we trust, how can we not? Ambient recording at the outdoor conference on Dec 4, 2011, with guests Steve Macdonald, Mitch Schultz, Margaret Cross, Joseph Gelfer, Dan Gooden and Dan Schreiber.

55: 2012 – Entheogenic Awakening?

And so it begins … an excellent new introduction to the world of 2012 from John Hoopes at  Psychology Today, concluding with a plug for 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse edited by my good self:

What You Should Know About 2012: Answers to 13 Questions | Psychology Today