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An account of how the Nevada Desert Experience-the nonviolent protest against nuclear testing that has been ongoing since the 1980s-has created a unique spiritual practice combining religious ritual and political action.

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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.

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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.

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