Crossroads

Crossroads is a comprehensive collection of fifty cutting-edge articles on diverse aspects of the transition to adulthood, covering experiences with contemporary rites of passage, the use of rites of passage to resolve the 'youth crisis' of gangs and violence, accounts of traditional rites of passage, and how-to guidelines for creating new rites of passage that may help to save our communities from despair and destruction.

Acknowledgments

ix

Biographies of Editors

xi

Preface

xiii

Louise Carus Mahdi

Introduction

xxi

Michael Meade

Baskets at the Crossroads

xxvii

Nouk Bassomb

PART ONE AN ANCIENT PRACTICE: MODERN PERSPECTIVES

1

(54)

Rites of Passage: A Necessary Step toward Wholeness

3

(14)

Christina Grof

Ritual, the Sacred, and Community

17

(10)

Malidoma Some

Rites of Passage at the End of the Millennium

27

(8)

Michael Meade

The Initiation of Telemachus

35

(6)

Jean Houston

Buddhist Monastic Initiation

41

(10)

Jack Kornfield

The Age of Endarkenment

51

(4)

Michael Ventura

PART TWO YOUTH CRISIS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

55

(90)

Litima: The Inner Heat

57

(6)

Michael Meade

Teen Motherhood and Aborting the Search for Self-Identity: A Review of the Work of Judith S. Musick and Marion Howard

63

(18)

Sharron Brown Dorr

Family Focus: Community-Based Solutions

81

(6)

Sharron Brown Dorr

Life without Father

87

(12)

Louise Carus Mahdi

The Code of the Streets

91

Elijah Anderson

Saving Youth from Violence

99

(10)

Fred M. Hechinger

Peace in the Streets

109

(6)

Geoffrey Canada

Gang Rites and Rituals of Initiation

115

(10)

Dadisi Sanyika

Service As a Rite of Passage

125

(8)

Nancy Geyer Christopher

Why Apprenticeship Matters

133

(8)

John R. McKernan Jr.

Education and the World of Work

141

(4)

William Raspberry

PART THREE CONTEMPORARY RITES OF PASSAGE: GROUP EXPERIENCES

145

(88)

The Journey: An Experiential Rite of Passage for Modern Adolescents

147

(20)

David Oldfield

African American Rites of Passage Today

167

(18)

Artemus Taylor

Ronnie Wooten

Nancy Geyer Christopher

The ``Senior Passage'' Course

185

(14)

Shelley Kessler

Vision Quest

199

(14)

Bob Burton

Steve Rogers

Old Men, Muskrats, and Adolescent Dreams

213

(8)

David Knudsen

Up With People

221

(2)

Paul Colwell

Walkabout in High School

223

(8)

Maurice Gibbons

Coming of Age at Sea

231

(2)

Edward H. Carus Jr.

PART FOUR RITES OF PASSAGE: RESOURCES

233

(72)

What a Woman Is

235

(16)

Erica Helm Meade

Guidelines for Creating Effective Rites of Passage

251

(14)

Robert P. Eckert

What Your Dreams Can Tell

265

(6)

Robert Moss

Personal Shields

271

(4)

Kaye Passmore

Reenactment of Traditional Rites of Passage

275

(12)

Edith Turner

Preparing the Elders

287

(4)

Edith Sullwold

Almost GrownUp

291

(2)

Christine Mulvey

Dancing Just as Fast as I Can

293

(2)

Lois Wiley

Invasion from Outer Space

295

(10)

Jerry Mander

PART FIVE INDIVIDUAL RITES OF PASSAGE

305

(74)

The Power of Words: A Prison Experience

307

(4)

Nathan McCall

Rites of Initiation: A Journey Inward

311

(10)

Herb Martin

Sacred Work in Middletown: Gay Adolescents

321

(6)

Alan Howard

Rigoberta Menchu: Growing Up in Guatemala

327

(4)

Rigoberta Menchu

Yes, We Carry On

331

(4)

Leland Roloff

Father and Son in Egypt

335

(4)

Chester Higgins, Jr.

Bunny Bashing into Manhood

339

(14)

Steven Foster

A Modern Girl's Quest

353

(2)

Sarah Kilmer

A Note on the Vision Quest

355

(4)

Louise Carus Mahdi

An Ojibway Vision Quest

359

(6)

J. G. Kohl

The Vision Quest

365

(4)

Lame Deer

Filming a Modern Wilderness Rite of Passage for Youth

369

(10)

Steven Foster

PART SIX CRUCIBLES FOR CHANGE

379

(38)

What Parents Can Do

381

(18)

William Kilpatrick

Higher Education and Rites of Passage in America

399

(16)

Miriam Dror

Flynn Johnson

Afterword: Crucibles for Change

415

(2)

Louise Carus Mahdi

Selected Bibliography

417

(6)

List of Leaders and Organizations

423

(4)

Index

427

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