Grønland religion

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Over the next years, they established a total of six mission stations in the Nuuk area and southwards all the way down to Cape Farewell Uummannarsuaq. The Church of Greenland came into being in when the Danish Parliament passed the Greenland Church and School Bill.

To the sorrow of the communities, they left the country precipitately in The Danish state mission took over the mission stations of the Moravians, and the communities were incorporated into what was soon to become the Church of Greenland. Die spiritualität der grönländer ist eng mit ihrer einzigartigen landschaft und kultur verbunden.

Mit der kolonialisierung kam das christentum, das heute stark vertreten ist. In East Greenland, a mission station was established in on the island of Ammassalik. A Greenlandic written language was established and locals learned to read and at the same time were taught the Christian faith.

Viele grönländer verbinden heute christliche feiertage mit alten traditionen. The majority of the Greenlandic population is Christian and associates with the Church of Denmark via the Church of Greenland, which is Protestant in classification and Lutheran in orientation.

The former mission districts became parishes, a concept taken over from the Faroese Church. Main religion of Greenland, about 95% is Christian, which is Protestant in classification and Lutheran in Orientation. With the amendment of the Danish Constitutional Act in , Greenland had freedom of religion, and a number of Christian and non-Christian religious communities emerged outside the Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Religion og trossamfund i Grønland

From the midth century, Greenland, along with Iceland and the Faroe Islands , had been part of Norway, but by the early 15th century, contact between Norway and Greenland had ceased. After , relations between Denmark and Germany became tense, and against this backdrop, the Moravians abandoned their presence in Greenland.

At the head of the Church of Greenland was from a rural dean who was under the supervision of the bishop of the Diocese of Zealand, later the bishop of Copenhagen.

Christian Rosing was ordained as a priest in and then served as a missionary in Ammassalik until He baptised the last East Greenlanders in A newly founded Danish ecclesiastical association, the Committee on Ecclesiastical Affairs in Greenland, established a mission station in Thule district north of Cape York in under the direction of the West Greenlandic catechist Gustav Olsen, who had been ordained as a priest that same year.

From then on, Greenland was therefore no longer a mission field, and the priests were no longer to be called missionaries. Other religious belief are Muslims, Jehovahs Witnesses, Jews, Buddhists, and so on. About 90% of the 57, Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today, more than years after a Danish missionary brought that branch of.

Ein tiefer respekt vor der umwelt ist ein verbindendes element in vielen glaubensrichtungen. From these new settlements , Christian teachings were widely spread. Today, Greenland is divided into seventeen large parishes. Religiöse feste wie weihnachten werden oft im kreise der familie gefeiert.

In grönland spiegeln sich traditionelle glaubensvorstellungen mit modernen einflüssen. He came as a royally appointed missionary to reconnect Norway and Greenland and re-incorporate the country into the Danish-Norwegian Empire by imparting the Evangelical-Christian faith to the inhabitants.

He baptised the first Inughuit in and did not leave Thule until The last adult Greenlander in the district was baptised in Fearing the great power of the United States, it was not until that the Danish state dared to assert its sovereignty in the territory by taking over the church , school and medical services.

Die freiheit der religionsausübung ist ein wichtiges gut in der grönländischen gesellschaft. Die evangelisch-lutherische kirche hat eine bedeutende anhängerschaft. Die inuit-spiritualität, geprägt von animismus, spielt immer noch eine wichtige rolle.

Es gibt auch kleinere glaubensgemeinschaften, die nebeneinander existieren. Geister und die natur werden als lebendig und miteinander verbunden betrachtet. This was done on Danish initiative with the priest Frederik Carl Peter Rüttel as the first missionary in the place.

Früher war schamanismus ein zentraler bestandteil des religiösen lebens.