What is the Index? / Redmond A. Burke, C.S.V., Ph.D.

What is the Index? / Redmond A. Burke, C.S.V., Ph.D.

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Author / Creator:	Burke, Redmond Ambrose, 1914- author.
Imprint:	Milwaukee : The Bruce Publishing Company, [1952]
Description:	x, 129 pages ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Index librorum prohibitorum. Index librorum prohibitorum. Prohibited books. Prohibited books -- Bibliography. Prohibited books. Bibliographies. Bibliography. Bibliographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2251827

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Notes:	A Revision of the author's thesis, Graduate Library School, University of Chicago. Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-123).
Summary:	Director of Libraries of De Paul University presents the Catholic Church's attitude toward books and reading. Contains a list of writers or specific works the reading of which is restricted to varying degrees.
Other form:	Online version: Burke, Redmond Ambrose, 1914- What is the Index? Milwaukee, Bruce [1952]

Table of Contents:

1. Historical background
2. Censorship of books in advance of publication
3. Condemnation of published books
4. General classes of forbidden literature
5. Methods of examining books by the Congregation of the Holy Office
6. Index of forbidden books
7. Penalties for violations of book regulations
8. Permission to read forbidden books
9. Promotion of reading.