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Books banned for religious / blasphemy

Name: Books banned or restricted for religious / blasphemy
Creator: AI Analytics
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

1,496 titles have been banned or restricted for religious / blasphemy across 63 countries — one of eleven stated grounds tracked across the censorship record.

Titles

1,496

Countries

Reason

Religious / blasphemy

Most-banned for religious / blasphemy

Ranked by the number of distinct countries that banned or restricted the title citing this reason.

Title	Author	Year	Countries
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	1988	16
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	2003	8
On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	1859	5
The Jewel of Medina	Sherry Jones	2008	3
Rangila Rasul	M.A. Chamupati	1924	3
Lajja	Taslima Nasrin	1993	3
Elmer Gantry	Sinclair Lewis	1927	3
Candide	Voltaire	1759	3
A Banquet for Seaweed	Haidar Haidar	1983	3
Zorba the Greek	Nikos Kazantzakis	1946	2
Zhuan Falun	Li Hongzhi	1993	2
What has Religion done for Mankind	—	—	2
Theologico-Political Treatise	Baruch Spinoza	1670	2
The System of Nature	Baron d'Holbach	1770	2
The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	1923	2
The Monk	Matthew Lewis	1796	2
The Last Temptation of Christ	Nikos Kazantzakis	1955	2
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame	Victor Hugo	1831	2
The Forty Rules of Love	Elif Şafak	2010	2
The Divine Comedy	Dante Alighieri	1320	2
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	1947	2
The Bible	—	1455	2
Quran	—	609	2
Philosophical Dictionary	Voltaire	1764	2
Paradise Lost	John Milton	1667	2
One Thousand and One Nights	—	1706	2
Moriae Encomium (The Praise of Folly)	Desiderius Erasmus	1511	2
Justine	Marquis de Sade	1791	2
Institutes of the Christian Religion	John Calvin	1536	2
God Dies by the Nile	Nawal El Saadawi	1974	2
Encyclopédie	Denis Diderot	1751	2
Emile, or On Education	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1762	2
Dwikhandita	Taslima Nasrin	2003	2
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family	Garrard Conley	2016	2
23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad	Ali Dashti	1974	2
Звезды в Джихаде и тени в огне	—	—	1
Zoonomia; or The Laws of Organic Life	Erasmus Darwin	1794	1
Zola — All works	Émile, Zola	—	1
Жизнь шейха Мухаммада ибн Абд аль-Ваххаба…	—	—	1
Жизнь после смерти	—	2009	1
Жизнь и исламская вера	—	2006	1
Zeus	B. A. Hoena	2006	1
Zen and the Art of Faking It	Jordan Sonnenblick	2007	1
Zaman Pancaroba	Kassim Ahmad	—	1
Zainab Srikandi Cucu Baginda Muhammad S.A.W	Nurfaridah Rubani	—	1
Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go	Mark Oestreicher	2008	1
Your Muslim Guest	Uncle Bill	—	1
You Can't Be Too Careful	H. G. Wells	1941	1
Yesus Usang Mesias	Dennis E. Clark	—	1
Yesus Kristus Tuhan Kita	John F. Walvoord	—	1

Where religious / blasphemy is most cited

Country	Titles
Malaysia	652
United States	435
Vatican City (Holy See)	114
Russia	114
India	37
France	15
Tajikistan	13
Egypt	12
Saudi Arabia	11
Pakistan	11
Singapore	10
Kazakhstan	10
United Kingdom	10
Belarus	9
Kuwait	7
Iran	7
Bangladesh	7
Spain	5
Lebanon	4
Jordan	4

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Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.