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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]
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.
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.
Banned Books Week this year is from Sept. 22-28. It's usually held during the last week of September. The theme of this year's event, according to the ALA, is " Freed Between the Lines ."
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 ...
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 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 ...
Here are 15 books PEN America says were most frequently banned in the first part of the 2022-23 school year. ... This bestselling 2019 autobiography in graphic novel format has been praised for ...