For more information about the Gwinnett County case and its social and historical contexts, check out these great sources!

 

General:

https://ncac.org/update/harry-potter-challenged-in-georgia

https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/archive/problem-with-potter-reaches-state/article_558cb8c1-e84d-5424-b01f-8e86277da58d.html

https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/archive/parent-who-fought-harry-potter-appeals-decision-to-state/article_27c857ff-cf7f-57a4-a667-c6327240fcd6.html

https://www.foxnews.com/story/judge-turns-down-request-to-have-harry-potter-books-removed-from-georgia-school-districts-libraries

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16204853/ns/us_news-education/t/mother-loses-bid-ban-harry-potter-books/#.XGOwPFxKjDc

http://www.bannedlibrary.com/podcast/2015/10/18/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone-harry-potter-1

https://www.today.com/popculture/potter-books-can-stay-georgia-schools-wbna18926229

https://web.archive.org/web/20071008101941/http://www.hisvoicetoday.org/harrysharshestcritic.htm

https://www.georgiatrend.com/2006/06/01/the-trouble-with-harry/

 

Harry Potter and Wicca:

https://www.thoughtco.com/is-harry-potter-a-pagan-book-250154

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-wiccan-is-harry-potter-2561839

 

Additional Reading:

Daniel K. Williams, God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.

George Marsden. Fundamentalism and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Michael Lienesch. In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

Silvia Federici. Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women. Oakland: PM Press, 2018.

Joan Bristol, Christians, Blasphemers, and Witches: Afro-Mexican Ritual Practice in the Seventeenth Century. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.