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Awe and dread: How religions have responded to solar eclipses
Throughout history, solar eclipses have had profound impact on adherents of various religions around the world. They were viewed as messages from God or spiritual forces, inducing emotions ranging from dread to wonder. Ahead of the total solar eclipse that will cross over North America on Monday, it's an appropriate time to take stock of these traditions and beliefs. Some Christians have believed that an eclipse portends the coming of the "end times" that will precede Christ's return to Earth. The Talmud – the collection of writings that constitute Jewish religious law – offers specific blessings for many natural phenomena, but not for eclipses. Instead, it depicts an eclipse as "a bad omen for the whole world."
Pilgrimage increasingly draws the spiritual but not religious
In 2023, nearly half a million people walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. About 40% did so for purely religious reasons. While it's traditionally a Catholic pilgrimage, people today embark on the Camino for many motivations beyond religion: health, grief, transition, adventure. "Spiritual but not religious" pilgrims in particular have increased over the past two decades. While some call them "tourist-pilgrims," guide Rachael Sanborn resists the idea that non-Catholic pilgrims are unable to experience what the pilgrimage has to offer. "Everyone I have ever met along the Camino is getting more than they expected," she said. "It's magic."
Most Greenlanders identify as Inuit, Lutheran
Most Greenlanders are proudly Inuit. And most are Lutheran. About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identity as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today. That is more than 300 years after a Danish missionary brought that branch of Christianity to the world's largest island. Greenland is huge — about three times the size of Texas and most of it is covered in ice. But parishes are still located across many settlements in the icy land and people endure the frigid Arctic climate to fill up church pews on Sundays.
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