Kunstreligion is a polysemantic word used around the turn of the nineteenth century'By the end of the twentieth century, religion appeared to many people to have fallen into terminal decline, ... However, this view appears to have been quite widespread at the beginning of the twentieth century also.' Susanne Lanwerd, article Kunstreligion, transl. by Robert R. Barr, in: The Brill Dictionary of Religion, Leiden & Boston, 2007. to refer to Art-as-religion, specifically in music, but also to refer to any art that was sacralized.

In early 2007 the Center for Comparative Studies at Uni Göttingen hosted a conference on the topic; Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.Volker Breidecker: Verklärte Welt. Lichtblick: Eine Göttinger Tagung über Kunstreligion, in SZ, 29 January 2007.

See also

Gesamtkunstwerk Secularization

References

Bibliography

Andreas Kablitz: Kunstreligion. Ein europäisches Phänomen. In: Religion im säkularen Europa, ed. A. Kablitz & O. Höffe, Paderborn 2018, pp. 157–200.