[Peace-discuss] Book-banning in Tennessee

[Bill Strutz]

Very interesting!

Now, how about lunch?

Regards,
             Bill

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 12:10 AM Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu> wrote:

>
> Anent the recent furor over book-banning in the schools of McMinn County
> TN
>
> A note on a centuries-old institutional practice of forbidding or
> suppressing books claimed to contain doctrinal or moral errors : the Roman
> Catholic Index of Forbidden Books.  It is held that they contain material
> that may mislead or confuse simple congregants.
>
> See Redmond A. Burke, C.S.V., Ph.D. (Director of Libraries, De Paul
> University; , _What Is the Index?_ (Milwaukee:  Bruce Publishing Co., 1952,
> 129 pages).
>
> On back of title page:  Nihil obstat, Imprimi potest, Nihil obstat
> [again], Imprimatur Samuel Cardinal Stritch, March 17, 1952.  [ Certifies
> that the book is considered free of doctrinal or moral error by the prelacy
> & thus eligible to be published. ]
>
> >  Appendix B: “Various Forbidden Authors and Titles” (pp. 87-105).
>
> A few of the better-known authors of the publications mentioned:
> A. France, T. Hobbes, D. Hume, B. Croce, H. Grotius, M. Maeterlinck, P.
> Proudhon, J.-P. Sartre, F.M. Voltaire, E. Zola, J. Addison, H. Heine, B. de
> Mandeville, M. Montaigne, J.-J. Rousseau, G. Flaubert, V. Hugo, Stendhal,
> etc.
>
> Notes
> 1.  It is mentioned that Catholics can apply to the hierarchy for
> permission to read specified books if they have an acceptable reason for
> doing so.
>
> 2.  McMinn County, in Appalachian eastern Tennessee, is in the original
> snake-handling area of fundamentalist & evangelical Protestantism.
>


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