Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics (Storpocket)
avS.Brent Plate
ISBN: 9780415969925 - UTGIVEN: 2004-11Walter 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 showi[...]
A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses (Inbunden)
avS. Brent Plate
ISBN: 9780807033111 - UTGIVEN: 2014-03A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion.
Humans are needy. We need "things" objects, keepsakes, stuff, tokens, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk, and treasure. We carry special objects in our pockets and purses, and place [...]
Imagining Otherness (Pocket)
avS. Brent (EDT) Plate, David (EDT) Jasper, S. Brent (EDT) Plate
ISBN: 9780788505935 - UTGIVEN: 1999-01Imag(in)ing Otherness explores relationships between film and religion, aesthetics and ethics. The volume examines these relationships by viewing how otherness is imaged in film and how otherness alternately might be imagined. Drawing from a variety of films from differing religious perspectives-inc[...]
