Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage - Softcover

 
9780812691900: Crossroads: The Quest for Contemporary Rites of Passage
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0812691903 ISBN 13: 9780812691900
Publisher: Open Court, 1999

Synopsis

Thinkers and activists from many orientations and traditions are now coming together to explore ways to reconstitute rites of passage as a form of community healing for our public and personal ills. Crossroads is a comprehensive collection of over fifty cutting-edge writings on diverse aspects of the transition to adulthood.

"In no uncertain terms, Crossroads opens our eyes to our responsibility to the adolescents who are now growing up without sacred rituals and hence without knowledge of spiritual roots in their culture. Many of the writers have first-hand experience and first-rate ideas of how to transform this cultural crisis. Crossroads also challenges us to integrate our own inner adolescent. Piercing insight with realistic hope!" -- Marlon Woodman The Ravaged Bridegroom

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From the Back Cover

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.

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Publisher
Open Court
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0812691903
ISBN 13 
9780812691900
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
478
Editor
Mahdi Louise Carus, Christopher Nancy Geyer, Meade Michael