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[sigerson]

Do any of y'all know of speculative fiction/scifi/fantasy novels that involve multiple faiths? I seem to be able to name ones that have One Big Church but an imagined world with multiple faiths isn't quickly jumping to mind. I must be missing something.

ETA: Wow. I must have had my brain turned off not to remember Small Gods. Thank you guys so much for these! (Now I have new reading material that doesn't involve the word "discourse"!)

Comments

[2h2o.livejournal.com]

Dune? A Song of Ice and Fire?

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I feel that I wouldn't be able to say much about ASOIAF, since the series isn't done yet; it's hard to tell how much of a role the different faiths (and conflicts between them) will play in the series as a whole.

Curiously, I think of Dune as a One Big Church novel, but I had forgotten that Bene Gesserit counts as its own faith...

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

In the later books, the Bene Gesserit get their own splinter sect, too.