Ten years ago, at a gathering at Lambeth Palace, an “alternative worship” service was vividly described as follows: “On the first visit to a service, the main impression is visual. Screens and hanging fabrics, containing a multiplicity of colours, moving and static images continuously dominate the perceptions. There are other things: the type of music, often electronic, whose textures and range seem curiously attuned to the context of worship, smells, the...

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