„A Miner Knows Better Than Anybody You Have Little Power Over Mother Nature”: Exploring Genesis 1:26–31 and the Concepts of Control and Power with South Derbyshire Coal Miners
This article seeks to analyze a contextually-reflexive reading of Genesis 1:26-31 that was produced by a group of contemporary “ordinary” readers - in this case, a group of South Derbyshire coal miners. The coal miners used Genesis 1:26-31 as a literary platform upon which they interrogated two prin...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue: Making Men: The Reception of the Bible in the Construction of Masculinities in Jewish and Christian Con/Texts / Issue Editors: Ovidiu Creanga, Adriaan van Klinken, Jorunn Økland and Peter-Ben Smit |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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| In: |
Journal of the bible and its reception
Year: 2015, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 145-174 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Genesis 1,26-31
/ Contextual theology
/ Exegesis
/ Masculinity
/ Mining
/ Rule
/ Creation
/ England
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| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology HB Old Testament KBF British Isles |
| Further subjects: | B
Earth
B coal mining B Masculinity B Genesis B Contextual Bible Study B Dominion |
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| Summary: | This article seeks to analyze a contextually-reflexive reading of Genesis 1:26-31 that was produced by a group of contemporary “ordinary” readers - in this case, a group of South Derbyshire coal miners. The coal miners used Genesis 1:26-31 as a literary platform upon which they interrogated two principal issues: How ‘masculinity’ is constructed, performed, understood, enforced, and legitimized in coal mining culture; and, what the relationship is between humanity and Earth. This resulted in a reading whereby an attempt was made to synthesize how a man’s understanding of ‘masculinity’ impacts upon his relationship with, and attitude towards, Earth. |
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| ISSN: | 2329-4434 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2015-0008 |