Social turmoil in the country has led more Korean people to lean on shamanism, with an marked increase in interest. The number of businesses registered for fortune-telling and similar services has ...

The notorious Jan. 6 rioter known as the “QAnon Shaman” has been pardoned by President Trump — and plans to celebrate by buying some guns. Jacob Chansley — who suffers from mental health ...

An exhibition hall in Insadong, Seoul, houses a small shrine just large enough for one person, where colorful ribbons, bells, ancestral tablets, candles, and a single cushion are carefully arranged.

In the early stages of history in Korea, religious and political functions were combined but later became distinct. Historically, Koreans lived under the influences of shamanism, Buddhism, Daoism or ...

In Ulaanbaatar I met a shaman, Zorigtbaatar Banzar—an outsize, Falstaffian man with a penetrating stare—who has created his own religious institution: the Center for Shamanism and Eternal ...

Battista explains that, “Most translation dictionaries decode musok as ‘Korean shamanism’ and I spend a lot of my ... practice which pre-dates Korea’s present day established religions; it is common ...

Vitebsky (1995:10-11) states: "The word [shaman] comes from the language of the Evenk [... ] It was first used only to designate a religious specialist from this region. By the beginning of the 20th ...