ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the high-mediated churches to argue that there is a sort of ‘homogenization’ among them in the way they frame some of their rituals and services around modern media communication. In the main branches of Western Christianity, liturgy can be roughly defined as the collection of ritual practices and ceremonies by which an assembly stands in the presence of the sacred. These characteristics of the liturgy of high-mediated churches can also be observed in the Roman Catholicism. In many high-mediated religious services, field research has suggested, worshippers are invited to go to the center of the altar to describe how Godalways through the church, of coursehas changed their lives. In short, it is possible to say that the process of mediation is complete, and that high-mediated churches have become producers of religious culture.