Dr Sarah Moerman

Dr Sarah Moerman

Honorary Research Fellow

Project Research Assistant

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2428
Email
sm379@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

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 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.

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