religion and SF/F

[rm]

Okay, as I finish up the Valentine's Day column, I think I want to look at religion in SF/F. This is probably my personal favourite obsession in SF, so Ia m also largely asking for a reading list here. Dune, the Kushiel books, those creepy out-of-print Edith Friesner books (Psalms of Herod/Sword of Mary), and Mists of Avalon (again), HDM (again), Narnia (duh), Aestival Tide (how could I forget The Chruch of Jesus Christ Cadillac?), The Country of Last Things (ah, suicide cults) all spring to mind in pretty radically different ways.

There's also something I keep meaning to read that I just forgot the title of, about a space mission gone horribly wrong and the only survivor is a surly priest who had been sexually tortured and won't talk -- what the hell is that book again? I really need to read it like this week.

So what have you got for me with intense use of religion from our world or not?

Comments

[threewalls]

Terry Pratchett (Small Gods?)

Ursula Le Guin (Telling? Tombs of Atuan?)-- who writes things rich with culture, including religion, so I'm at a loss to pick only one. You could hold her for discussing race as she might be more useful for that than religion, per se.