Walter Benjamin Religion and Aesthetics

<em>Walter Benjamin Religion and Aesthetics </em>is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with and against Walter Benjamin. Constructing what he calls an allegorical aesthetics Plate sifts through Benjamin's writings showing how his concepts of art allegory and experience undo traditionally stabilizing religious concepts such as myth symbol memory narrative creation and redemption.