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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]
Many countries throughout the world have their own methods of restricting access to books, although the prohibitions vary strikingly from one country to another. [ citation needed ] Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States.
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has been banned by several European governments. [1] [2] [3] This is an index of lists of banned books, which contain books that have been banned or censored by religious authority or government.
PEN America, which gathers a broader dataset from school districts, school board hearings, and local media outlets, reports that over 10,000 books were removed from public schools (at least ...
The book became the first banned book in North America, and subsequently all known copies were publicly burned. Pynchon left for England prior to a scheduled appearance in court, and never returned. [107] [108] [109]
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national nonprofit with 40,000 members, including 5,000 in California, has sent a letter to the Chino Valley Unified School District asking that the Bible ...
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The Banned Books of England and Other Countries. London: George Allen & Unwin. Davis, KC. “The Lady Goes to Court: Paperbacks and Censorship (Reprinted from Two-Bit Culture: The Paperbacking of America, 1984).” Publishing Research Quarterly 11, no. 4 (1996): 9–32. Edwards, M. J. (2017). Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late ...