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The roman Catholic Church began keeping an index of prohibited books from the mid sixteenth century why

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asked Nov 4, 2018 in Class X Social Science by priya12 (-12,638 points)

'The Roman Catholic Church began keeping an index of prohibited books from the mid-sixteenth century.' Why?

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(i) People wanted to know more and more about their religion and about their church.

(ii) This made the clergy afraid of the new awakening.

(iii) They saw it as a threat to their privileges, to their monopoly of interpreting religious texts and thus to their incomes.

(iv) They felt that free print material can make the people rebel against the established religion.

(v) With this fear in mind, the Roman Catholic Church imposed several controls over publishers and booksellers.

(vi) They began to maintain an Index of Prohibited Books from 1558 onwards.