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Voices of the Voiceless - Religion, Communism, and the Keston Archive (Hardcover)
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Voices of the Voiceless - Religion, Communism, and the Keston Archive (Hardcover)
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In 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 unique collection, called the Keston Archive,
now at Baylor University. Voices of the Voiceless, edited by Julie
deGraffenried and Zoe Knox, presents readers with twenty-five
essays on a curated selection of images and artifacts from the
Keston Archive. Some of the world's leading authorities on religion
and communism as well as experts personally involved with the
operation of Keston College carefully selected and provided
commentary for these images. The archival material presented in the
book offers vivid testimony of this critically important era in the
history of religion and of the Cold War. A guided look into the
past, Voices of the Voiceless reveals the power of what atheist and
antireligious regimes sought to silence. This collection documents
how believers fought for religious freedom, coped with oppression,
and practiced their faith, individually and collectively, in states
hostile to religion. It also presents atheist propaganda produced
by communist regimes that aimed to marginalize and ultimately
eradicate religion. This book offers insights into how faith
survived - and even flourished - during one of the most intense
antireligious campaigns of the modern era.
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