Publisher Recalls Encyclopedia for Being 'Too Christian'

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[The Christian Post] 13 Feb 2009--Wiley-Blackwell, a major academic publisher, is recalling copies of Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization and scrapping the print run after critics said the entries were "too Christian" and "too anti-Muslim."

The publisher was set to release the four-volume encyclopedia this month after it was completed last September.

But a small group of critics that included contributors and some members of the editorial board objected to the final version.

"They determined that the Introduction and many of the entries were 'too Christian, too orthodox, too anti-secular and too anti-Muslim and not politically correct enough for being used in universities," said the encyclopedia’s editor, George Thomas Kurian, sounding angry in an e-mail sent last week to nearly 400 contributors.

The charge against the book was led by David Morgan, professor of Religion at Duke University, and Bernard McGinn, professor of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity at The University of Chicago Divinity School, according to Kurian.

Blackwell subsequently decided to suspend the publication, recall copies already distributed, and destroy the existing print run.