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The restriction of religious texts in U.S. public schools, including the Bible, was referred to as a "Bible ban". [102] In June 2023, the Davis School District in Utah banned the Bible in Elementary and Middle Schools due to "vulgarity or violence" inappropriate for the age group. [103] [104] [105]
Catholic states could enact laws to adapt or adopt the list and enforce it. The Index was active from 1560 to 1966. [2] [3] [4] It banned thousands of book titles and blacklisted publications, including the works of Europe's intellectual elites. [5] [6] [7]
In 1526, the Parlement of Paris and the Sorbonne issued a ban on the publishing of the Bible in French. [7] On January 13, 1535, an extreme statute was enacted forbidding all printing under threat of hanging and closing all bookshops. [8] This law was quickly abandoned, and Parlement formed a commission to review book printing.
This is a selected list of authors and works listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.The Index was discontinued on June 14, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. [1] [2]A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002.
Here is the next book on the critics’ list for banning at school libraries due to overt sexual content: The Bible. But this time, instead of evangelical Christians seeking to remove books from ...
And to think, a group of parents missed it in their list of 97 books they want removed from schools for being “adult rated.” Mary Dimitrov of The Island Packet reported on the parents ...
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A list was drawn up of more than 30,000 titles, ranging from school textbooks to poetry, which were then banned. All copies of books on the list were to be confiscated and destroyed, and possession of a book on the list was made a punishable offence.