What's an Ark?

An organism threatened with extinction is entrusted to safe storage in the hope that the conditions it needs to survive might one day be available to it again. The ark of Genesis has been widely used to imagine conservation projects of this kind. My paper circumscribes ark building as a conservation...

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Subtitles:Special Issue: Transforming Biblical Animals
Main Author: Payne, Mark 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Otago, Department of Theology and Religion [2018]
In: Relegere
Year: 2018, Volume: 7, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 73-91
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ark of Noah / Life / Conservation / Ethical conflict
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CH Christianity and Society
HA Bible
NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics
Further subjects:B Animals
B Extinction
B Conservation
B Ark
B Affect
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Summary:An organism threatened with extinction is entrusted to safe storage in the hope that the conditions it needs to survive might one day be available to it again. The ark of Genesis has been widely used to imagine conservation projects of this kind. My paper circumscribes ark building as a conservation activity with other instances of ark building in contemporary culture, from Lars von Trier’s Melancholia to Lee Scratch Perry’s Black Ark. What is at stake when we decide that some form of life is, or is not, worthy of being set on its way to a life to come?
ISSN:1179-7231
Contains:Enthalten in: Relegere
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.11157/rsrr7-1-2-731