Abstract
This study tests the thesis that innovative cathedral installations and events may soften the boundaries between common ground and sacred space, perhaps especially at Christmas. Over two-fifths of the participants surveyed at the 2023 son et lumière ‘The light before Christmas’ in Liverpool Cathedral said that their experience made them more likely to attend a carol service in the cathedral and one-fifth said they were more likely to attend a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day service. By coincidence, the 4,749 attendance at the Christmas Eve carol services was a 21 per cent uplift on the pre-Covid 2019 attendance; the 1,232 attendance at Midnight Mass was a 73 per cent uplift on the 2019 attendance.
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