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PublisherLiverpool University Press
ISBN-101789761956
ISBN-139781789761955
eBay Product ID (ePID)11058363094
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Book TitleRites, Rituals & Religions : Amerindian, Spanish, Latin American and Latino Worlds
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicGeneral
GenreReligion
AuthorDebra D. Andrist
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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SynopsisExplores how rites, rituals and religions are adressed and handled in real life, ranging from prehistorical cave paintings, Amerindian ceremonies, Christian denominational (esp. Roman Catholic) traditions, and Afro-Caribbean syncretic rites. The volume also explores socio-cultural rites of passage like the quinceanera, and/or dance rites & rituals like the Southern Cone tango, African candombe, Cuban habanera and European waltzes and polkas and the corrida, from the public ritual known as tauromaquia. Ultimately, the volume seeks to explore the visual and literary representations of control and the interaction therefrom., Philosophers have contemplated the meaning of life, the who & the why, since nascent self-consciousness of the evolving hominid species. Yet practical efforts, i.e., control of life, have always transcended the philosophical: how to dominate what happens to the physical body itself, how to control the environment, and the interaction therefrom. Thus are born rites, rituals & religions. A rite can be a prescribed religious or other solemn ceremony or act it can be a social custom or practice, or even a mundane conventional act. A ritual can be the established form for a ceremony, the order of words used for example; a ritual observance can be either a system of ceremonial acts or actions, or an act or series of acts regularly repeated in a set precise manner. Religion generally encompasses a socio-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements. Religion is a set of beliefs, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances (rites and rituals). Control efforts highlighted in this volume range from prehistoric cave paintings, Amerindian ceremonies, Christian denominational (especially Roman Catholic), traditions & Afro-Caribbean syncretic rites, to crossovers, which deal with the more socio-cultural rites of passage like the quinceanera, and/or dance rites & rituals like the Southern Cone tango, African candombe, Cuban habanera and European waltzes and polkas and the corrida, from the public ritual known as tauromaquia. The premise behind this comparative volume is to discover how rites, rituals & religions are addressed in real life in these divergent societies by exploring the visual and literary representations of control. Rites, Rituals and Religions is eighth and final volume in the Hispanic Worlds series
LC Classification NumberBL2540
