[Buddha-l] Dangerous religious literature?

[Richard Hayes]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 18:58, jkirk wrote:

> I wonder if the NYT article pertained only to NY prisons? 

Laurie Goodman's article, published September 10, 2007 in the NY Times begins 
with the words:

\begin{quote}
Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly 
carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were 
once available to prisoners in chapel libraries.
\end{quote}

It's quite easy to find on the Internet all kinds of programs aimed at 
providing books for prisoners. Buddhists, like most other religious 
persuasions, have been doing this for decades. 

What I have not been able to find is the list of Buddhist books that are still 
(that is, after September 11, 2001) allowed in federal prisons by the 
authorities who have limited religious literature lest it breed terrorist 
sentiments.

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico
http://www.unm.edu/~rhayes