Teresa Berger

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 alsopublished 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.

Berger is passionate about teaching, including its cross-cultural 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 has completed a collection of prayers, meditations, stories and songs entitled Ocean Psalms, and has recently co-produced, with FireStream Media, a documentary video of liturgies in women’s hands.

Lorna Collingridge

Lorna Collingridge, Ph.D., began composing music as part of her music degree at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music, in Sydney, Australia. Since then, she has taught composition and more recently, begun composing music for religious events. Her first CD Walking in the Wilderness was published in 2001. She has composed music for various occasions; a number of these compositions appear in Teresa Berger’s book Fragments of Real Presence. (2005) Her latest publication with Teresa Berger, Ocean Psalms, is a multimedia CD-ROM of meditations, prayers, songs, and blessings from the sea (February 2008). Currently she is directing the music program at Immaculata School, Durham, North Carolina. Lorna Collingridge’s PhD (2004) focused on the songs of Hildegard of Bingen.

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