Teresa Berger
Professor of Liturgical Studies
Teresa Berger holds doctorates in both dogmatic theology and in liturgical studies. Berger grew up in post-World-War II Germany and studied at St. John’s College, Nottingham, and the Universities of Mainz, Heidelberg, Muenster, and Geneva. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of liturgical studies, gender theory, theology, and cultural studies. Berger has written extensively on liturgy and women’s lives. Her recent publications include Women’s Ways of Worship: Gender Analysis and Liturgical History (1999), Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context (2001), and Fragments of Real Presence (2005). The latter received two Catholic Press Awards in 2006. Berger has also published monographs on the hymns of Charles Wesley, on the 19th-century Anglo-Catholic revival, and on ecumenical readings of the Scriptures. In the spring of 2006, she co-edited an issue of the subaltern web dossier Worlds & Knowledges Otherwise, entitled The Poetics of the Sacred and the Politics of Scholarship.
Prof. Berger is passionate about teaching, including its crosscultural dimensions; she has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Mainz, Muenster, Berlin, and Uppsala.
In 2003, Teresa Berger received the distinguished Herbert Haag Prize for Freedom in the Church.
Berger’s scholarly work currently focuses on an editorial project designed to bring to light the many ways in which gender has shaped what comes to be known as “liturgical tradition.” Berger is also completing a collection of prayers, meditations, stories and songs entitled Ocean Psalms, and has just co-produced, with FireStream Media a documentary video "Worship in Women's Hands."
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., Westfälische Wilhelms‑Universität, Münster; Habilitation, Westfälische Wilhelms‑Universität, Münster.
Video: http://www.worshipinwomenshands.com/.