'… an important and timely volume … Cummings, Matovina, and Orsi have brought together a valuable resource for historians of global Catholicism.' Mary Beth Fraser Connolly, British Catholic History
Part I. North American Essays: 1. The limits of reform: rights, change and sexuality in San Francisco, 1962–1987 Jeffrey M. Burns; 2. An emotional history of Vatican II: relationships at St John's Seminary, Boston, 1959–1971 John C. Seitz; 3. Restructuring pastoral initiatives: the intersection of Vatican II and the quiet revolution in the Archdiocese of Quebec Gilles Routhier; 4. Traditionalist Catholicism in Mexico: liturgical renewal and the 'problem' of popular religion in the diocese of Cuernavaca Jennifer Scheper Hughes; 5. Through the prism of race: the archdiocese of Detroit Leslie Woodcock Tentler; 6. 'A spirituality you can put a handle on': Vatican II, memory, and ministry in rural New Mexico Kathleen Holscher; 7. 'You still just can't see us': being black and Catholic in Atlanta Andrew Moore; Part II. International Essays: 8. Catholic mobilization and ecclesial leadership in Santiago de Chile, 1957–1989 Sol Serrano and Luz María Díaz de Valdés; 9. Vatican II and the politics of the liturgy in the archdiocese of Bangalore Brandon Vaidyanathan; 10. Transformation in the diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, 1960–1985 Marjet Derks; 11. Vatican II and the governance of the local church: the diocese of Ferrara, 1959–1976 Massimo Faggioli; 12. A fresh stripping of the altars? Liturgical language and the legacy of the reformation in England, 1964–1984 Alana Harris; Afterword: the council and the churches Joseph A. Komonchak.