Voices of the Voiceless - 9781481311236

Voices of the VoicelessReligion, Communism, and the Keston Archive\nAuthor(s): Julie K. deGraffenried, Zoe Knox\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Baylor University Press, United States\nImprint: Baylor University Press\nISBN-13: 9781481311236, 978-1481311236\nSynopsis\nIn 1969, at the height of the Cold War, a group of British Christian researchers and activists, moved by the persecution of believers in the Soviet Union, established an organization dedicated to the study of religion under communism. They had two major goals: to educate the public about religious persecution and to promote academic analysis of religion in communist societies. The organization they founded, eventually named Keston College, amassed an extraordinary collection of primary source and research materials, used by its personnel to document the experiences of persecuted believers in the Soviet bloc and beyond and to publicize human rights violations against believers of all faiths. This formed the basis of a uniqu.