Getting a cue from the seminal works of Michel de Certeau, Jefferson M. Chua, “Travelling in the Secular Waste Land: de Certeau and the Irruptions of the Mystical,” explores how mystical discourse can help people navigate the rough seas of divergent faith-modalities in the postmodern age or the arid terrain of a secular world where faith has withered. Chua finds “two elements in mystic utterance—excess and exile—that showed both 1) their context of loss and degradation but also 2) an establishment of a space where an encounter with the Divine reorders the economies of knowledge and faith” (73). In this way the language of mysticism opens up a space for the transcendent to break forth into the secular sphere. – from the Editor’s Preface