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​​​​​​​​​​• The shaman is the traditional healer who leaves the material world and navigates the spirit world to determine and treat the spiritual causes of disease.​

 

• Traditionally, disease is understood as disruption in balanced, dynamic interaction of souls, spirits, and persons.
 

• Cure is effected by the shaman by retrieving lost or captured souls of the ill person in a special ritual.
 

• Traditional Hmong religious beliefs are considered animistic. Life is seen as a continuous circle of birth and rebirth, and the Hmong believe that there are two worlds- physical and spiritual – that coexist side by side.​​​​


• Believe in many spirit types including ancestral spirits, house spirits and spirits in the natural world

​​• Many ritual ceremonies performed by Hmong for the purpose of fulfilling the will of the ancestors and natural spirits
 

• Hmong use Shamans as a way to maintain communication between the physical and spiritual world
 

• Hmong use Shamans to perform rituals and sacrifice animals with the goal of pacifying the various spirits and curing illnesses
 

• Hmong believe in reincarnation
 

• About 70% of Hmong in U.S. practice traditional Animist Hmong Religion and Shamanism
 

• About 1/3 of Hmong population in U.S. are Christians. They belong to many denominations, but the largest number are members of the Christian Missionary Alliance Church











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