Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin, and constructing what he calls an allegorical aesthetics.

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.