Tangle of Matter & Ghost : : Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & Beyond / / Aubrey Glazer.

Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Leonard Cohen's Post-Secular Songbook of Mysticism(s) Jewish & beyond analyzes the lyrical poetry of Leonard Cohen through a post-secular lens. The volume fuses sophisticated theory and popular culture with critical analysis that is lacking in most of the rock...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:New Perspectives in Post-Rabbinic Judaism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Prelude: New Skin for a Post-Secular Circum/Fession
  • 2. On Exile as Redemption in (Canadian) Jewish Mysticism
  • 3. From Darkness, a Love of All This: Seeking the Sacred in Post-Secular Song
  • 4. Tangle of Matter & Ghost: Objective Spirit & Non-Dual Reality in Prayerful Poetry
  • 5. A Question of Pure Consciousness in the Priestly Blessing of Love
  • 6. Amen to American Agnosticism
  • 7. Nothing as Whole as a Broken Middle Matzah
  • 8. Falling with Our Angels, So Human
  • 9. "An Appetite for Something Like Religion": Unbinding the Binding of Isaac, Jesus Christ & Joan of Arc through Zen
  • 10. Standing Where There Used to Be a Street: 9/11 Post-Secularism & Sacred Song
  • 11. Never Mind this Neuzeit, Here's Kaddish: Between the Nameless & the Name
  • 12. Codetta: A Philosophy of Post-Secular Song in Light of Piyyut as a Cultural Lens
  • 13. Coda: Burning Darker Beyond "You Want it Darker"
  • Breaking the Brokenness and the Healing of the Poem: A Brief Meditation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index