Music & Spiritual Realities Workshop

In St Andrews from 19–21 June 2023, we held a workshop with scholars from different fields – including theology, musicology, psychology, and other empirical sciences – who addressed our core question: How would you, with your own area of expertise, your own research experience, and your own research methodologies, address or seek to demonstrate the commonly-perceived connection between music and spiritual realities?

Workshop Programme

Co-Organisers
This workshop is being organised by Prof George Corbett and Dr Sarah Moerman.

Speakers included

• Dr Jonathan Arnold (University of Oxford)
• Prof Jeremy Begbie (Duke University)
• Prof Peter Bouteneff (St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary)
• Dr Martin Clarke (The Open University)
• Prof Jeffers Engelhardt (Amherst College)
• Dr Michael Ferguson (University of St Andrews)
• Prof Maeve Heaney (Australian Catholic University)
• Dr Ines Jentzsch (University of St Andrews)
• Sir James MacMillan CBE (University of St Andrews)
• Prof Richard E. McGregor (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
• Prof John Sloboda (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
• Dr Férdia Stone-Davis (University of Music and the Performing Arts Graz / University of Cambridge) 
• Prof Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)
• Prof Bennett Zon (Durham University)

European Academy of Religion
This event was held in conjunction with the Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion.