I'm beginning to think that "alternative worship" is the unsung scarcely noticed renewal of church in England. Yet another service this time in Thame, Oxfordshire has surfaced -
http://www.gaultney.com/public/up/index.html -
and looks really interesting. They seem to focus most on the 'art gallery' model of using installations that can be accessed by the worshipper/user in ways that suit the individual yet they seem to overcpme the potential fragmentation of this by holding a service at some point in the proceedings which is not a compulsory thing for attendees, simply a part of the whole thing. In this way they seem to be honouring the radical individualism that many identify as part of the postmodern mood. Of course the difficulty with following that trend in worship is that the sense of being 'body' and of 'one anothering' is imperilled.
I suspect that this will be one of the real debates in the whole 'movement'.

And yet I also wonder whether it will turn out to be a defining debate within postmodernism because while there does seem to be a radically individualist streak at the moment, the philosophical undercurrents, it seems to me, are about recognising the cultural relativity of individual decisions and ways and our cultural formedness as individuals. The whole thing about linguistic relativity arises out of a recognition that language is a communal artefact, for example. And then the post-modern feminsit critiques of enlightment rationality seem to pull away from unmitigated individualism too: in the recognition of bodiliness and connection. And then there's the whole issue of wholistic /ecological and connectionalist insights becoming more mainstream through ecological and systems thinking. Wonder how this divergence will play out: individualist consumerism vs. wholistic connectionalism?