S. Brent Plate 
Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics [PDF ebook] 
Rethinking Religion through the Arts

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.