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Understanding the Role of the Exodus in the Institutionalization and Dismantling of Apartheid : Considering the Paradox of Justice and Injustice in the Exodus
Gunda, Masiiwa Ragies (2025): Understanding the Role of the Exodus in the Institutionalization and Dismantling of Apartheid : Considering the Paradox of Justice and Injustice in the Exodus, in: Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich-Universität, S. 1–13.
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2025
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Religions, Basel: MDPI, 2021, Jg. 12, Nr. 8, S. 1–13, ISSN: 2077-1444
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2021
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English
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The Exodus played an explicit and implicit role in sustaining the policy and practice of apartheid in South Africa and in various other places that went through the pains of colonization. Interestingly, the same Exodus also played a central part in the resistance to and the subsequent dismantling of the apartheid policy and practice in South Africa. That readers on both sides of the divide found solace in the Exodus was put down to the common assumption that guided both parties. The assumption of historicity caused the Exodus to be read as if it were a photographic record of what happened and the experience of oppression and discrimination by the readers assigned the Exodus a historical status for speaking to a historical situation. The assumption of historicity was central in the destructive uses of the Exodus thereby creating a cycle of oppressed–oppressors across the African continent, as groups took turns to seek out their own advantage. An assumption of justice was proposed as an alternative guiding principle through which justice for all, in line with pivotal events of the Old Testament, can be realized in the world.
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Südafrika
Apartheid
Bibel. Exodus
Innenpolitik
Geschichtlichkeit
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Exodus
racism
justice
righteousness
assumption of historicity
assumption of justice
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Article
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May 13, 2025
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