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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Preface 13
5. 1. Prelude: New Skin for a Post-Secular Circum/Fession 17
6. 2. On Exile as Redemption in (Canadian) Jewish Mysticism 26
7. 3. From Darkness, a Love of All This: Seeking the Sacred in Post-Secular Song 61
8. 4. Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Objective Spirit & Non-Dual Reality in Prayerful Poetry 83
9. 5. A Question of Pure Consciousness in the Priestly Blessing of Love 103
10. 6. Amen to American Agnosticism 124
11. 7. Nothing as Whole as a Broken Middle Matzah 150
12. 8. Falling with Our Angels, So Human 165
13. 9. “An Appetite for Something Like Religion”: Unbinding the Binding of Isaac, Jesus Christ & Joan of Arc through Zen 179
14. 10. Standing Where There Used to Be a Street: 9/11 Post-Secularism & Sacred Song 203
15. 11. Never Mind this Neuzeit, Here’s Kaddish: Between the Nameless & the Name 218
16. 12. Codetta: A Philosophy of Post-Secular Song in Light of Piyyut as a Cultural Lens 228
17. 13. Coda: Burning Darker Beyond “You Want it Darker” 238
18. Breaking the Brokenness and the Healing of the Poem: A Brief Meditation 247
19. Notes 252
20. Bibliography 300
21. Index 325