Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds

by Bald, Margaret; Wachsberger, Ken

• ISBN13: 9780816033065
• ISBN10: 0816033064
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Facts on File

Summary

Censorship of religious and philosophical speculation is as old as history and as current as today's headlines. Many of the world's major religious texts, including the Bible, the Talmud, the Koran, and others, have been suppressed, condemned, or proscribed at some time. Works of secular literature touching upon religious belief or reflecting dissenting views have also been suppressed. Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds profiles the censorship of many such essential works of civilization. Works covered include: -- Acta Pauli -- The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon -- The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine -- The Analects, Confucius -- Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre -- The Book of Common Prayer, Thomas Cranmer -- Children of Gebelawi, Naguib Mahfouz -- Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant -- De Defenso Populi Anglicani, John Milton -- Discourse on Method, Rene Descartes -- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo -- The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis -- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin -- Paradise Lost, John Milton -- Popol Vuh -- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie -- Siddartha, Hermann Hesse -- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum -- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	viii
Foreword	x
Preface	xiii
Works Discussed in This Volume	xvii
Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds	1	(292)
Censored Writers on Religious Censorship	293	(8)
Biographical Profiles	301	(20)
Bibliography	321	(13)
Works Discussed in the Other Volumes of This Series	334	(19)
Index	353

Excerpts

Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) was criticized for its anticlericalism and placed on the Catholic Church's Index of Prohibited Books in 1834, where it remained until 1948. Censorship of religious and philosophical speculation is as old as history and as current as today's headlines. Many of the world's major religious texts, including the Bible, the Talmud, the Koran, and others, have been suppressed, condemned, or proscribed at some time. Works of secular literature touching upon religious belief or reflecting dissenting views have also been suppressed.
Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds profiles the censorship of many such essential works of civilization.
Works covered include:
The Advancement of Learning (Francis Bacon)
The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine)
The Analects (Confucius)
The Bible
The Bloudy Tenant of Persecution (Roger Williams)
The Book of Common Prayer (Thomas Cranmer)
Children of the Alley (Naguib Mahfouz)
Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galileo Galilei)
Discourse on Method (Rene Descartes)
Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
The Koran
The Last Temptation of Christ (Nikos Kazantzakis)
On the Origin of Species, (Charles Darwin)
Popol Vuh
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Talmud
Voyages to the Moon and the Sun (Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac).