Teresa Berger
Professor of Liturgical Studies
Originally from Germany, Professor Berger came to Yale in 2007, after having taught theology at Duke Divinity School for many years. Professor Berger holds doctorates both in liturgical studies and in constructive theology. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersections of both disciplines with gender theory, specifically gender history. Her most recent research project, titled Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History, is being published in the Ashgate series “Liturgy, Worship and Society” in 2011. Previous publications include Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context (2001); Fragments of Real Presence: Liturgical Traditions in the Hands of Women (2005); and a video documentary, Worship in Women’s Hands (2007). Professor Berger has also written on the hymns of Charles Wesley and on the liturgical thought of the nineteenth-century Anglo-Catholic revival. She co-edited, with Bryan Spinks, the volume The Spirit in Worship—Worship in the Spirit (2009).
An active Roman Catholic, Teresa Berger has produced (with MysticWaters Media) a CD-ROM, Ocean Psalms: Meditations, Stories, Prayers, Songs and Blessings from the Sea (2008); and she writes regularly for the liturgy blog Pray Tell.
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.
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. and Habilitation Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster.
Video: http://www.worshipinwomenshands.com/.
Updated August 24, 2011