Sarah Moerman is a research fellow in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews, where she specializes investigating 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. She is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Music and Spirituality: theological approaches, empirical methods, and Christian worship practices (2024, Open Book Publishing); and is currently preparing a version of her doctoral thesis, Composing Christ’s Passion: Musical and Theological Approaches in the Passion Settings by James MacMillan, Arvo Pärt, and John Adams, for publication.