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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"!)

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[minyan.livejournal.com]

Stranger in a Strange land?

Certainly has Martians, Fosterites and a liberal Muslim.

Neil Gaiman, American Gods? Every pantheon you can think of.

Nalo Hopkinson has written a series of books with a Carribean Pantheon; she's Trinidadian, a quick read, and awesome.

I haven't read Octavia Butler, but the one on my shelf follows a female prophet.

Molly Gloss, The Dazzle of Day — I don't know if this fits, quite, but it's about a Quaker society that has gone looking for another habitable planet, at the point where they find one, and questions about the limits ofhumanity and people's relationships to place, creation, and community come up constnatly.