List of Contributors

**Peter Atkins** is currently the acting Program Director of Music at Excelsia College, Sydney. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of New South Wales, during which time he was an active member of the Empirical Musicology Group. Having studied Psychology and Education at the University of Tasmania, Peter now also works as the Pastor of Hunters Hill Congregational Church. Through these various responsibilities, he pursues his interests in spirituality and aesthetics.

**Peter Bannister** holds postgraduate degrees in musicology from the University of Cambridge and systematic/philosophical theology from the University of Wales. Among his awards as a musician are the Prix André Caplet for composition from the Institut de France as well as prizes at international competitions in Chartres/Nuremberg (organ) and San Sebastian (composition). His publications in the fields of music and religion include chapters in the following books: *Messiaen the Theologian*, *Twentieth-Century Organ Music*, and *Mystic Modern: The Music, Thought, and Legacy of Charles Tournemire* as well as contributions to *Analyse Musicale* and *Thinking Faith*. He currently works for the Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris.

**Chiara Bertoglio** is a concert pianist and musicologist. She obtained piano diplomas from the Conservatory of Turin (1999) and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia (2003), a Laurea specialistica in Musicology (University of Venice, 2006), and a Ph.D. in Music Performance Practice (University of Birmingham, 2012). She performed as a soloist with world-class orchestras and in venues such as the Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, and the Royal Academy in London. She is the author of several books and of articles on musicological topics, which were published by some of the most important international journals; she also recorded several CDs, for labels such as Brilliant Classics, Velut Luna, *etc*. She is active as a teacher and as a university lecturer, both in Italy and abroad. Her website is www.chiarabertoglio.com.

**Mark Duffett**, is a Senior Lecturer in media and cultural studies at the University of Chester. He is primarily known for academic work on popular music fandom and Elvis Presley. Dr. Duffett's books include *Understanding Fandom* (Bloomsbury, 2013) and the edited volume, *Popular Music Fandom* (Routledge, 2014). Dr. Duffett was also a keynote speaker at the MARS 2012 conference in Finland. He is currently writing a book on debates about Elvis Presley (Equinox Press, 2016).

**Edward Foley** is the Duns Scotus Professor of Spirituality and Professor of Liturgy and Music at Catholic Theological Union. He holds graduate degrees in ministry, music, and theology, including a Ph.D. from Notre Dame. He has released collections of CDs and DVDs,

authored or edited 23 books, produced 46 book chapters, 41 peer review articles, and almost 200 encyclopedia, dictionary, and pastoral articles, which were translated into 8 languages. He has lectured in places ranging from the catechetical institute in Mumbai to the Mayo Clinic, with audiences ranging from 6000 teens in the Houston Astrodome to graduate students in Brisbane. A Lilly sabbatical Fellow, he presides and preaches at Old St. Pat's in Chicago.

**Maeve Louise Heaney**, V.D.M.F. was born in Ireland and is a missionary of the Verbum Dei Community and a lecturer in theology at Australian Catholic University. A musician and composer, Dr. Heaney has lived and worked in Spain, England, Ireland, Italy, and Australia while leading schools of evangelization, retreats, and spiritual exercises and teaching theology. She writes on themes concerning theological aesthetics, music, and spirituality and is the author of the book entitled *Music as Theology: What Music Has to Say About the Word.* In 2014, she released her 4th CD: *Break the Crystal Frame*, with Willow Publishing, Australia.

**Ivan Moody** studied music and theology at the University of London, the University of Joensuu, and the University of York (where he took his Ph.D.). He studied composition with Brian Dennis, Sir John Tavener, and William Brooks. His music has been performed and broadcast all over the world. He has also been commissioned by, and had his works performed by, many of the world's most outstanding performers. His largest works to date are *Passion and Resurrection* (1992), the *Akathistos Hymn* (1998), and *Qohelet* (2013). As a musicologist, his work has dealt with the music of the Balkans, contemporary sacred music, and the theology of religious music. He is a researcher at CESEM Universidade Nova, Lisbon.

**Michael O'Connor** (D.Phil., Oxford) is a senior lecturer at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto. He studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and historical theology at the University of Oxford. A former Warden of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), he is a Board member of RSCM Canada. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the Theology Through the Arts Project. He has published in the areas of early modern theology (a monograph on Cajetan's biblical commentaries is forthcoming), and on liturgy and music.

**Emery Schubert** is an Associate Professor in Music and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He is co-leader of the Empirical Musicology Group and Music-Science, both of which are located at the University of New South Wales. His primary research area is in music psychology and emotional responses to music. He was President from 2008 to 2009 of the Australian Music and Psychology Society (AMPS) and serves on the editorial board of key journals in the field of music psychology.

**Fr. Innocent Smith**, O.P., is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. He received a License in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) from the Pontifical Faculty of Theology of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, DC) in May 2015. He is presently assigned to the Priory of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York, NY.

**Thérèse Smith,** a graduate of UCD (B.A. and B.Mus.), has lectured at Brown University, U.S.A., Bowdoin College, U.S.A. and, since 1991, University College Dublin, where she is an Associate Professor of Music. Trained as an ethnomusicologist at Brown University (M.A. and Ph.D.), she has given invited lectures at universities across the United States, throughout Ireland, and across Europe. Specializing in Irish traditional music and African American music, she has published widely, both in Ireland and internationally. Her major published works include *"Let the Church Sing!": Music and Worship in a Black Mississippi Community*; *Ancestral Imprints: Histories of Irish Traditional Music and Dance*, ed.; *Crosbhealach an Cheoil: Education and Traditional Music* (co-ed.)*; Moving in the Spirit: Worship through Music in Clear Creek, Mississipi; Blas: the Local Accent in Traditional Irish Music (*co-ed.*),* and *Éigse Cheol Tíre vols. V-VI* (co-ed.). Her current research interests focus on the English-language song collection of the late Tom Munnelly and the effects of digital technology on worship*.* 

**William Harrison Taylor** is an Associate Professor of History at Alabama State University, where he concentrates on the religious history of the Anglo-American world during the eighteenth-century. His publications include an edited book, *Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora* (Lehigh University Press, 2016) as well several articles including, "*'Let Every Christian Denomination Cheerfully Unite': The Origins of Presbyterian Interdenominationalism*", which have appeared in the *Journal of Religious History*, the *Journal of Southern Religion*, and *Religions*. Currently, he is working on a book project that explores the Presbyterian experience during the American Revolutionary Era.

**Paul Westermeyer** is Professor Emeritus of Church Music at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was also the Cantor and Director of the Master of Sacred Music program with St. Olaf College. He taught at Elmhurst College and Yale University, was President of the Hymn Society, and graduated from Elmhurst College, Lancaster Seminary, Union Seminary's School of Sacred Music, and the University of Chicago. His books are about church music and include: *The Church Musician*, *Te Deum*, *Let Justice Sing*, and *Hymnal Companion to Evangelical Lutheran Worship*. His wife, Sally, and he have four children and ten grandchildren.
