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  An Ong Reader: Challanges for Further Inquiry

  Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. Farrell, and Paul A. Soukup

  This collection puts together the writings of Walter Ong, a scholar who has offered his own observations about voice, orality, speech, literacy, communication and culture. For those new to Ong, the range and accessibility will serve as a suberb introduction to Ong's body of work. Those already familiar with Ong's major publications will find much in this text to supplement and enrich their understanding and direct their future reading.

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  Guide to the Manuscripts Concerning Baja California in the Collections of The Bancroft Library

  Robert M. Senkewicz and Rose Marie Beebe

  This guide contains more than 5,000 entries for resources in The Bancroft Library relating to the history of Baja California. Important resources on maritime history, mission history, demographic history, and trans-border relationships are identified in the Spanish-language publication.

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  Q&A: The Mass

  Dennis C. Smolarski SJ

  May Eucharistic ministers clean the vessels after communion? What does the deacon do at Mass? How do we use the entrance and communion antiphons? Where do the servers sit? Is the book carried out at the end of Mass? How do we choose the Eucharistic Prayer?

  These and more questions–45 in all–that priests, liturgists, music directors, liturgy committees, ministry coordinators and diocesan liturgy offices frequently ask about the Mass are answered here with legal expertise and pastoral sensitivity by Father Dennis Smolarski, SJ. Most of these questions and answers have appeared in a helpful column in Liturgy 90 and Rite over the years. Now they are gathered in one convenient volume for reference and study.

  Questions are grouped into subject topics including introductory rites, liturgy of the word, liturgy of the Eucharist, concluding rites, ministers, weekdays and miscellaneous issues. The answer to each question takes into account the 2000 edition of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, as well as other official documents. Each answer is informed by the common sense and pastoral concern of an experienced presider and member of the assembly.

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  Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, Cultures

  Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and Anna Sampaio

  This groundbreaking text challenges the traditional paradigm of Latina/o studies by focusing on transnational issues and examining the manner in which gender, race, and class emerge out of local and global processes. Divided into three parts, the volume first critiques current theoretical and methodological approaches within the discipline. It then explores alternate propositions concerning material culture and human identity by introducing different frames for analysis. Finally, it moves us beyond nation-based approaches of previous studies as well as attending to emergent rural and urban innovations at the local level. This work expands our understandings and links between Latino and Latin American studies and will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars from both fields.