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"Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics 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."

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Author:   S. Brent Plate
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9780415969925

ISBN 10:   0415969921
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   12 December 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Prescript: The Religious Uses of Benjamin i Acknowledgements viii Abbreviations used ix List of Illustrationsx Introduction: Creative Aesthetics Creating Religion 1 Chapter One: Aesthetics (I): From the Body to the Mind and Back 22 Chapter Two: Allegorical Aesthetics 59 Chapter Three: Working Art: The Aesthetics of Technological Reproduction 138 Chapter Four: Aesthetics (II): Building the Communal Sense 209 Bibliography 244

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S. Brent Plate is Assistant Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University has published widely on religion and visual culture, film, and aesthetics. His edited collections include the forthcoming Religion and WorldCinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making (2003) and Religion, Art, and Visual Culture: A Cross-CulturalReader (2002).

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