ABSTRACT

This chapter extends the work done in previous chapters into a concise account of the key features of digitally mediated liturgical practices. A first noticeable feature is an expanded repertoire of liturgical possibilities. This feature is enabled not least by technological innovations such as binary coding, numerical representation, and the flexibility of transcoding. These technological innovations not only offer near-instantaneous connection across vast distances, but they also multiply possibilities of blending existing materials. Another key feature related to digitally mediated practices of worship involves changing experiences of space. In the digital age, new spaces have appeared, and those well beyond the so-called third spaces perceived as complementing "home" and "work". The chapter highlights the challenges this new world of liturgical practices presents for the work of liturgical studies, now in the digital age. It offers some thoughts on what it means to seek God among pixels.