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Liborius Olaf Lumma's Research Activities

Memberships

• Research Center „Synagogue and Churches” (2016–2021 chairman)
• AISCGre (International Association for Studies of Gregorian Chant), board member of the German section since 2015
• AKL (Arbeitsgemeinschaft katholischer Liturgiewissenschaftlerinnen und Liturgiewissenschaftler) since 2016
• North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) since 2020 (visiting member since 2016)
• European Academy of Religion and Society (EARS) since 2022

Ongoing

• Translation of Paul F. Bradshaw: Rites of Ordination. Their History and Theology (Liturgical Press, to be published in Österreichische Studien zu Liturgiewissenschaft und Sakramententheologie 2023)
• Revised 5th edition of „Crashkurs Liturgie” (Pustet Verlag Regensburg, to be published in 2024)
• Introduction into meaning and expressive patterns of Catholicism (Pustet Verlag Regensburg, no timetable yet)
  
• Article on Liturgy of the Hours (for the Cambridge Companion to Christian Liturgy)
• Article on the role of the parish priest as liturgical presider (for an anthology, to be published in 2023)
  

Projects of academic qualification

Dissertation (finished 2006, published 2009):

• Interpretation of 30 communion antiphons de evangelio in the Gregorian Mass Proper de tempore
• Application of the methodology of Gregorian Semiology to the individual chants
• Summary findings
• Usage of the manuscripts Einsiedeln 121, Laon 239, St. Gallen 339, and Bamberg 6

Habilitation (finished 2015, published 2017):

• Commentary on the Compline in the Liturgia Horarum with special regard to
  a) the origins in ancient Latin monasticism,
  b) the reformation of the Compline in the 20th century,
  c) alternative patterns in current monasticism and outside the Latin church,
  d) recently developed patterns for today's practice