Pilgrimage Through a Burning World
Subtitle: Spiritual Practice and Nonviolent Protest at the Nevada Test Site
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780791457771
Subjects: Christianity; Demonstrations & protest movements; Sociology of Religion; Nevada Test Site; History & Theory - General; Sociology; Religion; Nevada; Nuclear warfare; Modern - 20th Century/Nuclear Age; Christianity - Catholicism; Spirituality - General; Christianity - Catholic; Antinuclear movement; Religious aspects
Description: "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."--Jacket.