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 Ve rite – Between heroic and deficient : challenges to research on children’s spirituality from a Christian theological standpoint / Annemie Dillen – Spirituality ‘from the mouth of babes’? / E 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 / Jesu s Andre 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 Geffre – Women and children in the face of social conflict and disaster in Indonesia / Frieda Mangunsong.