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
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