religious censorship
Doctrine-enforced speech control
Religious censorship is the suppression or restriction of speech, publication, or artistic expression based on religious grounds.
It may be imposed by religious authorities, governments enforcing religious law, or pressure from religious groups: The film was banned in several countries due to religious censorship.
The practice ranges from prohibiting blasphemy to restricting criticism of sacred texts, figures, or doctrines.
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- blasphemy lawsProhibitions on religious insult
- banned booksLiterature officially prohibited
- excommunicationFormal barring from sacraments
- moral panicIrrational collective fear wave
imprimatur · media blackout · sacred cows · samizdat · tolerance · pluralism · forbidden knowledge · book burnings · public shaming · underground publishing · thought police · prior restraint · witch hunts · cancel culture · human rights · Hays Code · theological disputes · propaganda
- censorshipbanned books, banned, book banning, book bans, book burning
- Islamic mediaQuran recitation, fatwas, satellite channels, Friday prayers, call to prayer
religious censorshipfreedom of expression
Right to communicate ideas
religious freedom · intellectual freedom · freedom of thought · free inquiry · artistic freedom
religious censorshipseparation of church and state
Constitutional religious neutrality principle
church-state separation · secularism · secular humanism · disestablishment · state censorship
religious censorshipblasphemy
Irreverence toward the sacred
religious satire · irreverence · iconoclasm · sacrilege · heresy
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