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The resurrected Jesus and the marginalized people : from a Buraku liberation perspective

Arizumi, Wataru ; Behera, Marina (Dir.) ; Norelli, Enrico (Codir.)

Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2015.

Discrimination is one of the most challenging issues that we are faced with in the world today. It impairs human dignity and dehumanizes individuals and particular group of people, violating the order of God’s creation. It has and continues to be a critical issue and a serious challenge for Christian churches today. This thesis aims to link the theme of the liberation for the Burakumin who are... Mehr

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    Titel
    • The resurrected Jesus and the marginalized people
      from a Buraku liberation perspective
    Autor
    • Arizumi, Wataru
    Beteiligter
    • Behera, Marina. Dir.
    • Norelli, Enrico. Codir.
    Dokumententyp
    • Abschlussarbeit
    Format
    • 52
    Dissertationsvermerk
    • Mémoire de Master Advanced Studies (MAS) : Conseil œcuménique des Églises, 2015
    Verteidigungsdatum
    • 2015-06-30
    Sprache
    • Englisch
    OAI-PMH-ID
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:20160104165825-OS
    Einreichung-ID
    • 20160104165825-OS
    Summary
    Discrimination is one of the most challenging issues that we are faced with in the world today. It impairs human dignity and dehumanizes individuals and particular group of people, violating the order of God’s creation. It has and continues to be a critical issue and a serious challenge for Christian churches today. This thesis aims to link the theme of the liberation for the Burakumin who are the discriminated and marginalized people in Japanese society over a period of years, with the liberating message of the Gospel, and the ecumenical commitment towards the issue of discrimination. The Burakumin are not really known in the world outside Japan. An attempt is made to highlight their discriminatory situation and their struggle for liberation. An attempt has also been made to study the Buraku liberation theology as one of the contextualized liberation theology and highlights its relevance and contribution towards the struggle against the discrimination in Japanese society and also the world at large. Then, as an example of the ecumenical biblical interpretation for the liberation of the marginalized people, it attempts has been made to interpret and re-read the biblical text about the story of the resurrection in John 20:11-18 from the perspective of the Burakumin. Through a Buraku liberation reading, it is hoped that the possibility of interpreting the resurrection of Jesus as the liberating experience for the discriminated and marginalized people can be highlighted with the re-reading and presentation of the resurrected Jesus in the similitude of the discriminated and the marginalized, appearing before the discriminated and marginalized in the society.