Catholics in the Vatican II Era

Kathleen Sprows Cummings is Associate Professor of American Studies and History and Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Her research focuses on the history of women and American religion, particularly US Catholicism. She is the author of New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era (2009). Timothy Matovina is Professor of Theology and Co-Director of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He specializes in US Catholic and US Latino theology and religion. Among his most recent books are Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church (2012), and the edited volume Virgilio Elizondo: Spiritual Writings (2010). Robert A. Orsi is Professor of Religious Studies and History and Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois. He studies religion in the US, with a focus on American Catholicism in both historical and ethnographic perspective. Orsi's most recent book is History and Presence (2016).

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.