Teresa Berger

Professor Berger teaches in the fields of liturgical studies and Catholic theology; she holds doctorates in both.  Her scholarly interests for many years lay at the intersection of these disciplines with gender theory. More recently, Professor Berger has turned her attention to questions of liturgical practices in digital worlds, and to liturgy and creation. She is now working on a monograph dedicated the latter, titled Benedicite. Her most recent publications include an edited volume, Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation (2019), and a monograph titled @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (2018).  Earlier publications include Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History (2011); Fragments of Real Presence (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 coedited, with Bryan Spinks, the volume Liturgy’s Imagined Pasts (2016) as well as the collection of essays The Spirit in Worship–Worship in the Spirit (2009) and served as editor of the volume of essays titled Liturgy in Migration: From the Upper Room to Cyberspace (2012). An active Roman Catholic, Professor Berger also writes for the liturgy blog “Pray Tell.” Originally from Germany, she 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.

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Books

1. Editor. Tanzt vor dem Herrn, lobt seinen Namen. Einfache Beispiele für Gottesdienste und Feste im Kirchenjahr.Mainz: Matthias-Grünewald Verlag, 1985. 
2. Liturgie und Tanz. Anthropologische Aspekte, historische Daten, theologische Perspektiven. Pietas Liturgica Studia 1. St. Ottilien: EOS-Verlag, 1985.
3. Liturgie—Spiegel der Kirche. Eine systematisch-theologische Analyse des liturgischen Gedankenguts im Traktarianismus. Forschungen zur Systematischen und Ökumenischen Theologie 52. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1986.
4. Theologie in Hymnen? Zum Verhältnis von Doxologie und Theologie am Beispiel der Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1780). Münsteraner Theologische Abhandlungen 6. Altenberge: Telos-Verlag, 1989.
5. Editor, with Albert Gerhards. Liturgie und Frauenfrage. Ein Beitrag zur Frauenforschung aus liturgiewissenschaftlicher Sicht. Pietas Liturgica 7. St. Ottilien: EOS-Verlag, 1990.
6. Editor, with Erich Geldbach. Bis an die Enden der Erde. Ökumenische Erfahrungen mit der Bibel. Ökumene konkret 1. Zürich: Benziger/Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1992.
7. “Liturgie und Frauenseele.” Die Liturgische Bewegung aus der Sicht der Frauenforschung. Praktische Theologie Heute 10. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 1993.
8. Theology in Hymns? A Study of the Relationship of Doxology and Theology according to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists (1780). Nashville: Abingdon, 1995. Revised and updated English translation of Theologie in Hymnen.
9. Women’s Ways of Worship: Gender Analysis and Liturgical History. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1999.
10. “Sei gesegnet, meine Schwester.” Frauen feiern Liturgie: geschichtliche Rückfragen, praktische Impulse, theologische Vergewisserungen. Würzburg: Echter Verlag, 1999.
11. Editor. Dissident Daughters: Feminist Liturgies in Global Context. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001.
12. Fragments of Real Presence: Liturgical Traditions in the Hands of Women.  New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 2005.
13. Editor, with Bryan D. Spinks. The Spirit in Worship–Worship in the Spirit.  Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2009.
14. Jyoseitachi ga tsukutta Kirisutokyou no dentou. Expanded Japanese translation of Fragments of Real Presence. Translated and annotated by Kazuyo HiRose. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten Co., 2011.
15. Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical Tradition: Lifting a Veil on Liturgy’s Past. Ashgate Liturgy, Worship and Society Series. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011.
16. Editor. Liturgy in Migration: From the Upper Room to Cyberspace. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2012.
17. Editor, with Bryan D. Spinks. Liturgy’s Imagined Pasts: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today.  Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2016.
18. @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds. Liturgy, Worship and Society Series. London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
19. Editor. Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2019.

Further Information

”@ Worship: Exploring Liturgical Practices in Cyberspace”

“Gender in Christian Worship”