For questions relating to music created or used in a religious context or with religious intent. Best used in conjunction with tags specifying, for example, history, theory, or performance-practice, among others. Consider carefully when the religious nature of the music is only incidental to the question.
Religions around the world have and continue to make use of music in myriad ways, from central roles in ritual or worship to banning it in part or in whole.
The tag religious-music is applicable to questions that fall into those broad historical, practical/performative, and analytical/theoretical areas. As such, this tag is best used in conjunction with additional tags such as history, performance-practice, or theory, among others.
This tag includes music created by and/or for specific religions, the role of music within a religion, or music on religious themes but which may or may not be associated with a specific religion.
Music appropriate to this tag includes, but is not limited to: chants, mantras, sutras, Vedic music, hymns, nigun, Spirituals, sacred European classical works, ritual music, Christian Rock, and other general or specific categories of music tied to religion or religious use.
