Ken Butigan 
Pilgrimage through a Burning World [PDF ebook] 
Spiritual Practice and Nonviolent Protest at the Nevada Test Site

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.

Table des matières

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Nevada Test Site and the Socializing Practices of a Nuclearized World

2. The First Journey—Lenten Desert Experience 1982

3. Nevada Desert Experience

4. The Stations of the Nuclear Cross at the Nevada Test Site

5. Nonviolent Civil Disobedience at the Nevada Test Site

6. Antinuclear Pilgrimage at the Nevada Test Site

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

A propos de l’auteur

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.