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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 ...
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.
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.
“If history isn’t documented, then it’s forgotten,” a librarian involved in creating Fresno State’s Hmong history repository said. Hmong culture in 1960s war-torn Laos documented by ...
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.
Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-56639-162-7. JSTOR j.ctt1bw1jqv. Deitz Shea, Pegi (2003). Tangled Threads: A Hmong Girl's Story. Clarion Books. ISBN 9780618247486. Deitz Shea, Pegi (1995). The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story. Boyds Mills Press. ISBN 1563971348. Fadiman, Anne.
It takes you on the romantic journey of Mua, a young Hmong man. Shortly after completing his university studies in Minneapolis , Minnesota , he was asked by Pufua, a refugee girl in Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in Thailand to help sponsor her and her family for settlement in the United States.
Hideko Hakamata, 91, fought half her life to free her brother - the world's longest serving death row inmate [Getty Images] When a court declared Iwao Hakamata innocent in September, the world's ...