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For followers of traditional Hmong spirituality, the shaman, a healing practitioner who acts as an intermediary between the spirit and material world, is the main communicator with the otherworld, able to see why and how someone got sick. The Hmong view healing and sickness as supernatural processes linked to cosmic and local supernatural forces.
The religion is also called Hmongism by a Hmong American church established in 2012 to organize it among Hmong people in the United States. [ 2 ] This practice has a blend of animistic theology, [ 3 ] the respect between people and natural land spirits, and the understanding of the spirituality that are understood by Miao peoples.
A Hmong theologian, Rev. Dr. Paul Joseph T. Khamdy Yang has proposed the use of the term "HMong" in reference to the Hmong and the Mong communities by capitalizing the H and the M. The ethnologist Jacques Lemoine has also begun to use the term (H)mong in reference to the entirety of the Hmong and Mong communities.
In religious and traditional Hmong families the subject of mental health is taboo because of Shamanism, with the belief that remedy to health is through communication and exchanges with spirits. Through spiritual ceremonies, overall health is remedied, not through health facilities or specialists, not through science. [ 79 ]
The Hmong people are an ethnic group of people originating from Central China, who continue to maintain and practice Ua Neeb.Being a Hmong shaman is a vocation; their primary role is to bring harmony to the individual, their family, and their community within their environment by performing rituals, usually through trance.
Hmong people have a culture built on animistic beliefs and a strong faith that after death the soul reincarnates as one of many forms such as humans, plants, rocks and ghosts (Goetz par. 1, 12). Death is often considered the most important time for practicing rituals in the Hmong community because without practicing the necessary rituals the ...
A recently expanded museum in St. Paul, Minnesota, celebrates Hmong American culture and history. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
Miao folkdance – Guizhou, China. Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate some ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia.Miao is thus officially recognized by the Chinese government as one of the largest ethnic minority groups that has more than 56 official ethnicities and dialects.