{"id":3047,"date":"2012-09-24T03:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2012-09-24T03:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T11:33:08","slug":"bbw-2012-mondays-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/bbw-2012-mondays-books\/","title":{"rendered":"BBW 2012: Monday&#039;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re highlighting two banned or challenged books, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/379531\">Bhagavad Gita as it Is<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/741540087\">Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/Bhagavad-Gita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3050\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/Bhagavad-Gita.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the Bhagavad-Gita As It Is\" width=\"187\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a> The first, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/379531\">Bhagavad Gita as it Is<\/a>, <\/em>was challenged in Russia, where a call was made to ban the book altogether by asking it to be ruled &#8220;Extremist&#8221;. In Russia, being placed on the Federal List of Extremist Materials leads to banning. Already, over 1,000 texts are banned this way.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/GreatSoulMahatmaGandi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3051 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/GreatSoulMahatmaGandi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/741540087\">Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India<\/a><\/em> was banned in parts of India in 2011. It causes controversy in the United States, since the biography hints at a same-sex relationship between Gahndi and Hermann Kallenbach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re highlighting two banned or challenged books, the Bhagavad Gita as it Is and Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India. The first, the Bhagavad Gita as it Is, was challenged in Russia, where a call was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/bbw-2012-mondays-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-banned-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}