Pilgrimage Through a Burning World: Spiritual Practice and Nonviolent Protest at the Nevada Test Site - Softcover

Butigan, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791457788 ISBN 13: 9780791457788

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2003

Synopsis

For two decades the Nevada Desert Experience has organized nonviolent action at the Nevada Test Site as part of the global movement to end nuclear testing. Pilgrimage through a Burning World illuminates how the Franciscan-based group has crafted a contemporary desert spirituality that integrates religious ritual and political action to grapple with the challenges of an institutionalized and internalized nuclear world. Ken Butigan shows how the annual pilgrimage to the test site has contributed to the personal transformation of people "on both sides of the fence" at the test site and to the worldwide emergence of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

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Review:

"Ken Butigan captures moving first-person accounts of contemporary acts of faith and conscience of people who were involved in the Nevada Desert Experience. In view of the current SDI procurement, this is an important and provocative book."

"Through a series of anthropological and theological speculations--coupled with photographs and first-person accounts--Butigan argues that this unique desert pilgrimage/social action reflects a new post-nuclear asceticism capable of bringing traditional spiritual longings into dialogue with contemporary political realities."

About the Author:

Ken Butigan is Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Martin's College and Program Coordinator of the From Violence to Wholeness Program at the Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service. He is coeditor (with Philip N. Joranson) of Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0791457788
• ISBN 13: 9780791457788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268