Concilium 2007/5 Stages Of Life And Christian Experience

Introduction / Solange Lefebvre and Susan Ross -- Ritual of life-passages : whether or not / David N. Power -- New culture and new ritual requirements : challenges to the church / Louis-Marie Chauvet -- 'Stages of life' theories faced with globalized culture / Norbert Hintersteiner -- Street children on the periphery of the 'family-of-God' church in Africa / Jean-Baptiste VeÌ riteÌ -- Between heroic and deficient : challenges to research on children's spirituality from a Christian theological standpoint / Annemie Dillen -- Spirituality 'from the mouth of babes'? / EÌ laine Champagne -- In search of a faith of one's own : the changing shape of adolescence as a challenge to the Christian churches / Friedrich Schweitzer -- Pastoral ministry to young people in South America / JesuÌ s AndreÌ s Vela -- Ages of life and Christian faith among religious and former religious / Anthony J. Blasi -- Problem of meaning in the evening of life / Claude GeffreÌ -- Women and children in the face of social conflict and disaster in Indonesia / Frieda Mangunsong.