A book review is presented for Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods and Directions, authored by Guy Beck, by Sarah Moerman.
Author Biography
Sarah Moermanis 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 St Andrews. 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.
Moerman, Sarah
(2023)
"Musicology of Religion: Theories, Methods and Directions,"
Yale Journal of Music & Religion:
Vol. 9:
No.
2, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1308
