Shamanism Rituals In South Korea

The main Chinese religions have many key features. The main religions include shamanism/ancestor reverence, Confucianism, Daoism, Mahayana Buddhism, and idol worship. These 5 religions share some features in common. For example, Chinese popular religion focuses on the human being’s pursuit of health, wealth, and happiness in their lives (quote the textbook). Chinese popular religions want the human to be doing well and succeeding in their day-to-day activities of their lives. Another key component of the main Chinese religions is respecting one’s elders. The religions teach the importance of obeying the commands of the elders and honoring the family name. The Chinese allow place a strong emphasis on the temple. The temple is a place where the people could communicate, understand, and learn about their gods (quote the textbook). The next subsections will be describing the key religious practices of each of the 5 Chinese religions.

As a result of many deaths traditions tend to get lost in the bad times of these deaths. A lot of cultural knowledge is lost since most adults and elders are leaving the world. Some traditions like making a proper funeral is important since they strongly believed in that sort of stuff. In most of the American Indian cultures, healing was a part of their religious ceremonies. When they failed to cure the European diseases there was a lot of faith in the traditional Indian spiritual ways was lost. Lots of Native Americans started to lose faith in what they believed in their whole life. Some Indians began to rethink and they said it must be the power of their religion that saved most of them.

The main religion of the Hmong people is animist which is the belief in the spirit world and the interconnection between all living things. It revolves around an important figure in each hmong village called the Txiv Neeb or shaman which is a master of spirits, this shaman can be a man or woman and they have the power to access the spirit world. When someone gets ill or suffers misfortune the Hmong believe it is the evil spirits called dabs who have scared off or kidnapped the person’s soul. When this occurs it is the job of the shaman to perform rituals in order to ward of the dabs and bring back the soul thus restoring health and harmony to the person’s

Rites and rituals of the Hmong people are an interesting topic. They are known for their rituals including the soul of a living being. The Hmong religions is traditionally animist. Animism is the belief in the spirit world and in the interconnectedness of all living things. The center of the Hmong culture is the Shaman, literally meaning “Father/Master of spirits” (PBS, 2013). The Hmong believe that the body is the host for a number of souls and that the separation of these souls from the body can cause many things including disease, depression,

In contrast, 19th and early 20th century indigenous narratives describing Mandan and Hidatsa death and mourning culture shift the focus from descriptions of decay and “affections” in the midst of “barbarity” to narratives of familial care, self-sacrifice, and intimate interpersonal and spiritual connections. By refocusing the narrative of death and mourning culture on these indigenous experiences and their perspective on matrilineal clan relationships and spirituality, I seek to decolonized narrative of morality culture. Through care for the dying, preparation of the dead, and funeral rituals, the women in the Mandan and Hidatsa matrilineal clan systems honored their relatives’ autonomy, demonstrated familial care, and facilitated ongoing spiritual unity between living and deceased clan

Paying respect to your ancestors is a common practice in Africa, including the Harare and Chitungwiza area. In both places, Masowe apostolics have taken many people by faith, and dictate a large part of their daily lives. These apostolics also firmly believe that the practice of “communicating” with your ancestors is a form of veneration, which goes against their Christian beliefs. The apostolics call for the cessation of this practice, however, Engelke speaks with some of the locals that carry out this practice who refuse. He describes: “Most apostolics would argue that holding rituals to communicate with one’s ancestors—as many Shona-speaking people do—amounts to the worship of false gods. You should not pray to your ancestors; pray only to God. As with several apostolic interpretations of “traditional” religious practice, this one is rejected by the people it is meant to describe... For many Shona-speaking people, as I have noted, ancestors are an integral part of social relationships,

Korea was highly benefitted from using Chinese culture. Korea adopted Chinese religion and philosophy into their ruling, because it helped gain and maintain Korea’s unification. Korea adopted Buddhism because they regarded the religion as a factor in China’s advanced civilization. Korea adopted Buddhist teachings, beliefs and traditions by sending Korean monks Tang Dynasty to learn more about Buddhism (Baumann). Buddhism became the official religion of Silla (Baumann).

When we ask “How important is religion in your community? Why?” Sophia answered it is important either Christian or atheist. In summary, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism are the main religions in Korean community. (http://www.korea.net/AboutKorea/Korean-Life/Religion)

support, providing cures to illnesses not only using herbs, but also via the spirit world. They would

When it comes to death, although the focus is on the deceased individual, the function of rituals which exists throughout many different cultures is to help the survivors deal with the death by allowing the group a “time out” period after which the group must now deal with a “new normal”; they must adjust to life without that deceased individual. In most cultures (such as in Indonesia and New Guinea), everyone deals with death together. Death is experienced as a group, therefore the survivors mourn together as a group and anthropologists, as a result, focus on that impact which death has as a whole.

East Asia culture is composed of two main religious traditions of Daoism and Confucianism. These two traditions seem to be completely opposed to each other but if we take a close look at both we will notice that they share some equal values. Even though East Asia has a couple of different religions and traditions they are all called worshiping. Chinese people are known to be worshipers since 2000 BCE, especially worshipers of the natural world that holds a cosmic energy.

In Chinese culture, the influence of ancestors is great. They were buried in expensive graves at the best location people could think about. People will invite their ancestors to come back to enjoy a delicious meal one set day in a year. I, literally helped my ancestors finish their meal, always wondered how we could not see them and yet believed their presence. This tradition is commonly practiced in my hometown until today. We ask the ancestors to bless us and protect us during their meal and send them off by cracking

Similar to shamans are priest and ministers; they have higher authority in a religious community. They also guide people through prayer to fight off evil energy/spirits. Shamans help communities too. They claim to have special powers, although they are not religious. Another religion that intertwines with shamanism is Buddhism. They both have strong spiritual beliefs, and meditate to go into a different state. South Korea has no "official" religion-like the Anglican Church in England-nor is there one dominant religion. Shamanism, Buddhism, and

At the time that Catholicism by a Jesuit brand was initially introduced into Chosŏn Korea, the central government's policy towards the foreign religion had been tied to factional politics

How have the Korean church been speaking about the Triune God? How have the Korean church been naming the Trinity? Jesus taught us to call God “our Father” when we pray. God has made us reborn as spiritual families through Jesus Christ. However, the Father image of Koreans is not the same as the Father image of Jesus. Due to the still strong Confucian ideology, it is true that Korean society is still oppressive to women and children compared to men and fathers. Conversely, the image of the incompetent father is also prevalent in Korea due to the loss of father authority. Presidents, who can be called the father of the country,