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Teresa Berger
Professor of Liturgical Studies
L.Th. St. John’s College, Nottingham
M.Th. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
Dr.Theol. Ruprecht Karl-Universität, Heidelberg
Dipl.Theol. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz
Dr.Theol., Habilitation Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster
Professor Berger holds doctorates in both dogmatic theology and liturgical studies. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of those fields with gender theory and with cultural studies. She has written extensively on liturgy and women’s lives and produced in 2007 a video documentary called Worship in Women’s Hands. Her recent publications include Women’s Ways of Worship: Gender Analysis and Liturgical History; Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context; and Fragments of Real Presence. She has also published monographs on the hymns of Charles Wesley and on the nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholic revival. In 2008, Professor Berger produced (with MysticWaters Media) an interactive CD-ROM called Ocean Psalms, featuring meditations, prayers, songs, and blessings, all focused on the sea. Most recently, she edited the volume The Spirit in Worship—Worship in the Spirit, to be published by Liturgical Press in late 2009. Professor Berger has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Mainz, Münster, Berlin, and Uppsala. In 2003, she received the distinguished Herbert Haag Prize for Freedom in the Church.