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Summary of the Article

The point of view that is being presented by many scholars is that how the missionaries that were working in the Anglo American had destroyed the concept of the shamanism in the way protestant monotheism. The other aspect is that of the Western rationalism and how the modern civilization specially during the modern Korea. The core aspect of this article is that how the process of the eventual power struggle that prevailed between the Christian Holy Spirit and the shamanistic rituals worked out. The idea that is propagated during the course of this article is that as the Christian missionaries started to work and how the ideologies and thought process of occult started to work in the given point of time. The article also talks about the fact that how the missionaries, specially the female ones started to exorcism and despite the fact that neither these concepts are talked about or propagated in Christianity.

The article raises a great point regarding the role of the missionaries. The usual perception is that the missionaries are the people that are supposed to prolongate the message of God, but that is not the case with the missionaries that are working in that area. That in general seems to have been the attitude of all the people who were working as a missionary. They had different set of assumptions with regards to how they are going to act at the given point of time and what are some of the major implications that they have in terms of the way they behave at the given point of time. These missionaries were working on their own agenda’s and one of the reasons that these people were not able to manifest the message of Christianity in the right manner. So, the role of the missionary is one of the prime reason that the occult and such practices were able to make way in the religion.

Critical Analysis

One of the key things that can be seen during the course of this article is that how the influence of other regions and how their practices seems to have reflected upon Christianity. What is quite evident here is that the basic Christian teachings did not dealt with the practice of exorcism and other such rituals, and instead when the religion transcended to other regions, then some of these practices started to make their presence happen. The problem that has happened with the Christianity is that it was not able to sustain its ideologies at the broader level. At the same time, the section that got affected the most by this prejudice was when the people from other religion attributed these wrong practices to the Catholic Church. In a way, it can be said that the primary reason that the protestants were able to detach from Christian orthodox teachings is since they propagated such point of view.

The major premises that can be deducted from here is that how the originality of the religion and the context under which it is supposed to work is needed to be worked out. The occultist practices and the sick rituals that are witnessed these days in the Christian literature are not something that were part of the original religion. This argument is further validated by the fact that how these practices are carried out predominantly in the Asian region and how they boiled down in the Christianity. Even though it might sound as something that is rather obvious, but if one looks at most of the religions that are operating in Asian and Korean region, the occultist ideology and thought process is one of the driving forces behind this concept.

Now, it is important to take note that the cultural sensibilities are always going to play an important part when it comes to the religious sensibilities. For instance, Buddhism, Islam and Christianity all the religions have spread at the much wider span as compared to their origination and in each of the case, it is crucial to keep in mind that at times, the cultural influence of the area in which the missionaries were operating became much more dominant as compared to the religious teachings of that faith. It is one of the prime reasons that so much distortion is witnessed if one compares to what was the actual message of God and what people are left with these days. The article seems to hit out at the distortion that has happened to the original religion and faith and what are some of the things that are needed to be done to make sure that the original ideology is restored.