Religions in Space!

[neotoma]

Apropos of conversations with friends this week, which SF novels deal with modern human religions in future/space-faring settings? I'm mean seriously deal with religions, as in they are integral to the setting and at least some characters motiviations and identity.

The example that comes to my mind is Sarah Zettel's Fool's War, where one of the main characters is identity as a Muslim is as important as her identity as a merchant spaceship captain.

Rec me others?

Edited for clarity: I'm interested in stories dealing modern day religions in current or lightly extrapolated forms, and really want recs for non-mainstream-Protestant religions and characters. Stories about Orthodox Christians IN SPACE, Mormons IN SPACE, Wiccans IN SPACE, Sikhs IN SPACE, Buddhists IN SPACE, etc etc.

Comments

[molly_o]

This is probably a stretch, but Karen Traviss' City of Pearl features a fundamentalist colony IN SPACE. The colony functions as an antagonist to the main character, so it's not from the colonists' POV, and the religious aspect might not be explored as thoroughly as you would prefer.

[molly_o]

Elizabeth Moon's Paladin series also engages heavily with Christianity, but I don't think it's at all what you have in mind -- it's really more about how even well-meaning apostles almost can't help but distort a savior's message, and it's aimed pretty transparently at Paul (the guy who writes it all down wrong is named *Luap*).

[neotoma]

It sounds like it might be worth taking a look at, though.