TY - JOUR AU - Park, Thomas G. PY - 2021/02/17 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Why the Sponsorship of Korean Shamanic Healing Rituals is Best Explained by the Clients’ Ostensible Reasons JF - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion JA - EJPR VL - 9 IS - 3 SE - Research Articles DO - 10.24204/ejpr.v9i3.1852 UR - https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/index.php/ejpr/article/view/1852 SP - 197-220 AB - <p>Various scholars have suggested that the main function of Korean shamanic rituals is the change of the participants’ feelings. I elaborate what these scholars potentially mean by “function”, challenge what I take to be their core claim, and argue that at least in the case of Korean shamanic <em>healing</em> rituals their sponsorship has rather to be explained based on the clients’ ostensible motivational and belief-states. Korean clients sponsor such rituals because they want their beloved ones to be healed and because they believe that the shamanic ritual can potentially accomplish such healing. I underpin this thesis by two representative actual Korean shamanic healing rituals.</p> ER -