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Illuminations and Epiphanies
Banned Books
A Chronological Collection of
Banned Books
The 2000s
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
This is another one of those titles that the ALA hypes as being among
the most banned books of all time in the United States. It simply
isn't true. It is true, though, that fundamental Christians have
initiated hundreds of requests to have all of the Harry Potter books
banned, the two most famous being unsuccessful attempts in Zeeland,
Michigan and Gwinnet County, Georgia. That said, there has only
been one documented case where a governmental authority--to include
school boards--in the United States actually banned the book.
That occurred in the small town of Wilsonna, California. In 2001,
however, the book was banned in the United Arab Emirates for
encouraging witchcraft.
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The Da Vinci
Code. When the international best seller, The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was
published in 2003, it immediately raised the hackles of many Christians
by claiming that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had married and that their
descendents became the Merovingian dynasty of
France. Even more distasteful to many Catholics
was the fanatical manner in which the Church and its Opus Dei organization was
portrayed. The book was banned in Lebanon in 2004 after that
country's Catholic Information Center advised the Surete Generale that
it found Brown's treatment of Catholicism to be unacceptable.
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To the 1900s
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