Spiritual ideology can justify censoring a spouse’s news, books, and music within the home

Evidence

My wife has forbidden the whole family to watch news because they bring negative energies into the house. She searched the bookshelf and removed all the volumes that, according to the master, spread a bad aura. Pictures of the revered master hung everywhere. Then she also started censoring the music I listen to. I felt like I was in prison. — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 479

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the silencing-of-speech theme central to the reader’s Communication as Culture work — censorship justified as spiritual hygiene.