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Dr Sarah Moerman

Research Fellow in The Theological Imagination in Music

Email

sm379@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

Sarah Moerman is a research fellow in Theology and Music. She specializes in investigating the various intersections of music, theology, and psychology. She is especially interested in the role music (both liturgical and extra-liturgical) plays in perception and cognition of faith and spiritual formation. She holds a PhD in Theology and the Arts from the University of 58³Ô¹Ï. Previously, she received her M.Mus in Sacred Music and Choral Conducting from Westminster Choir College (Princeton NJ) and her B.Mus in Violin Performance from Mount Allison University (Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada). More recently, she was co-investigator of a research project titled The Most Spiritual of the Arts: An Empirical Approach to the Relationship Between Music and Spiritual Realities, funded by the Templeton Religion Trust, and which engaged with the interfaces between music, theology, psychology, and cognition.

Selected publications

• Moerman, S., 1 Apr 2024, In: Journal of Inklings Studies. 14, 1, p. 85-88 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Open access
  Corbett, G. & Moerman, S., 28 Jun 2024, Music and spirituality: theological approaches, empirical methods, and Christian worship. Corbett, G. & Moerman, S. (eds.). Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, p. 1-12 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Corbett, G. (Editor) & Moerman, S. (Editor), 28 Jun 2024, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. 464 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Moerman, S., 1 Feb 2020, In: Music & Letters. 101, 1, p. 174-176

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

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