K172 Mid Term
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lecture7-1KoreanSpirits.pptxKorean Spirits & the Christian Holy Spirit
Theories of Shamanism and
Practice of Exorcism
1894-1910
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Missionary Iconoclasm against “Demon Worship”
Received Tradition: Strict Prohibition of Demon Worship
Performed Ceremony: Burning Fetishes and Destroying Devil House
Applied Theory: Germ Theory, Defeating Evil Spirits and Epidemics
Missionary Study of Korean Shamanism
George H. Jones / Eli Barr Landis / James S. Gale / Homer B. Hulbert /Horace G. Underwood
Demon Possession and Christian Exorcism
John Nevius and Demon Possession in Shandong
Christian Exorcism in Korean
Korean Bible Women as Exorcists
Embracing the Premodern View of Demon Possession
Introduction
The First Power Encounter between Protestantism and Shamanism
C. Japanese Colonial Understanding of Korean Shamanism
D. Modern Theology of the Holy Spirit in Korea, 1970-2000
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A. Introduction
Importance of theology of the Holy Spirit (pneumatology)
from structural evils
to total submission
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Shaman’ dancing on the blade of the straw cutter 작두타기
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl6LZisYgss&ab_channel=JinsungKim
Precarious life on the edges (existential sufferings of the oppressed and the marginalized)
Importance of theology of the Holy Spirit (pneumatology)
in Korea = Shamanism’s influence on Christianity
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Especially Pentecostalism & Pentecostalization of the Korean Protestant Chruches
http://tvpot.daum.net/v/qAY-W2Xuemg$
Osan-ri Prayer Center 오산리기도원
laying hands prayer for healing
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Terminology/definitions
Mudang: spirits—mudang—clients (han-ridden)
“Koreans were born from the womb of han and brought up in the womb of han.”
Rural Tang-gŭ-le: vanishing old hereditary shamans (Southern provinces, Jeju)
Urban Man-shin (10,000 gods):
Learned hereditary mudang
Possessed spiritual shamans –strong spiritual power (Migrated from NK since 1945)
Possessed mudang’s Initiation ceremony
spiritual disease—accepting the calling—inspired by the master spirit
—”gates of speech” opened
Calling spirits’ power to purify, exorcise, heal, and bring good fortune
Bosal (Bodhisattva) mudang
Han: wounded heart 恨
a feeling of unresolved resentment/grudge against injustices suffered
a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one,
a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, &
an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong
— all these combine.”
From han to Han (great oneness & peace: mutual living)
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Kut: healing clients by appeasing “hungry,” “wandering” or “angry” spirits
Healing/Purification ceremony for the rural old people and community
Fortune Kut for the urban business people
Materiality + Materialism + Magicality = greed + survival
kongsu (ancestor spirits)
Music (drum sound + singing) + dancing=trance = receptive to spirits
Practice = evolving+adapting = syncretic fusion = “eclectic syncretism”
Shamanism: “Shifting Intellectual Terrain”
Mu-sok (culture): from “superstition” to “culture”
1890s-1950s: enemy of modernization
1960-70s: Cultural politics of superstition (by the New Village Movement)
1980s: mudang and masses (used by the democratization movement)
Shamanism as an authentic Korean (minjung) culture
Mu-gyo (religion): 1990s-: from “culture” to “religion”
Terminology/definitions
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