Crossroads

by Mahdi, Louise Carus; Christopher, Nancy Geyer; Meade, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780812691900
• ISBN10: 0812691903
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-01
• Publisher: Open Court Pub Co

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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