Dancing in the Forest (eBook)

Korean Shamans in the United States

Helen Hong (Autor)

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2022
294 Seiten
Wipf and Stock Publishers (Verlag)
9781666741490 (ISBN)

Infos

Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the "othered" life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism.
Korean shamans mediate the present with the past, life with death, the living with the ancestral spirits, and Confucian moral virtue with Protestant belief, and fill the geographical and collective mental gap in a life of transition. This book introduces Korean shamanism within the Protestant context of immigration in the United States, including an ethnography of Korean shamans in order to observe this landscape of not only conflictive but also ambivalent episodes through rituals and narratives of participants.

Autor

Helen Hong is currently an independent researcher and acupuncturist, having previously taught in community colleges as an adjunct professor in New Jersey.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.11.2022
• Verlagsort: Eugene
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Ancestor worship • Anthropology • Confucianism • Cultural and Social • culturally rooted spirits • Cultural studies: customs and traditions • Customs and Traditions • Dancing in the Forest • Disease and Health Issues • Ethnology • Health • Helen Hong • illness and addiction: social aspects • immigrant Korean Protestantism • Korean immigrant • Korean immigrants • Korean shamanism • Korea (South) • Ritual • Shamanism • Shamans • Social and cultural anthropology • Social Science • Women Shamans
• ISBN-13: 9781666741490 / 9781666741490