Elin Lockneus
Elin Lockneus is associate professor in Practical Theology at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, and an ordained priest in the Church of Sweden, working as chaplain of pilgrims in Selånger congregation in Sundsvall. Her research is focused on liturgy and lived theology. She is interested in listening to the voices of the unordained and bringing their perspective into the theological conversation (or choir). She will present research from the perspective of the liturgical assembly, situated in the pews. It consists of a dialogue between the result of her dissertation in practical theology ('Theology in the pews: A study of the theology of the worshippers' liturgical practices', written in Swedish Kyrkbänksteologi: En studie av gudstjänstfirares liturgiska praktikers teologi) and the theories of liturgical theology. She is a member of Societas Liturgica.
Mark Porter
Mark Porter is a lecturer, musician, and researcher currently based at the University of Erfurt in Germany. His work is driven by a desire to engage with the diversity of musical practices and experiences in Christianity and beyond and he seeks to understand their significance for individuals, for particular communities, and within wider constellations of groups, networks, and ecologies. Mark is author of Contemporary Worship and Everyday Musical Lives, Ecologies of Resonance in Christian Musicking, and For the Warming of the Earth: Music, Faith, and Ecological Crisis. He is co-editor of the edited collection Ethics and Christian Musicking and programme chair of the biennial Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives conference.
More information: https://markporter.co.uk