shamanism
noun
sha·man·ism
ˈshä-mə-ˌni-zəm 
ˈshā-mə-,
also shə-ˈmä-
: a religion practiced by indigenous peoples of far northern Europe and Siberia that is characterized by belief in an unseen world of gods, demons, and ancestral spirits responsive only to the shamans
also
: any similar religion
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The rumors of Choi Soon-sil’s shamanism largely stem from what is known about Choi Tae-min.
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Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2016
Korean shamanism, like many traditional religions, features a belief in an ongoing relationship between humans and a spirit world inhabited by demons and deceased ancestors.
—Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2016
The unusually public and hostile feud — which has included allegations of plagiarism, chart rigging and shamanism — has led to hundreds of millions of dollars being wiped off Hybe’s market value.
—Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 12 May 2024
The Ram Dass lectures took their place in his library of unorthodox thinkers, which had long embraced Ralph Abraham, a professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, who was not only an expert on chaos theory and psychedelic shamanism but had spent a good deal of time living in a cave in the Himalayas.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
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Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2016
Korean shamanism, like many traditional religions, features a belief in an ongoing relationship between humans and a spirit world inhabited by demons and deceased ancestors.
—Katharine H.s. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2016
The unusually public and hostile feud — which has included allegations of plagiarism, chart rigging and shamanism — has led to hundreds of millions of dollars being wiped off Hybe’s market value.
—Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 12 May 2024
The Ram Dass lectures took their place in his library of unorthodox thinkers, which had long embraced Ralph Abraham, a professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, who was not only an expert on chaos theory and psychedelic shamanism but had spent a good deal of time living in a cave in the Himalayas.
—Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
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