D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1914, 'Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depths of my religious experience.' Although he had broken with the Congregationalist faith of his childhood by his early twenties, Lawrence remained throughout his writing life a passionately religious man. There have been studies in the last twenty years of certain aspects of Lawrence's religious writing, but we lack a survey of the history of his developing religious thought and of his expressions of that thought in his literary works. This book provides that survey, from 1915 to the end of Lawrence's life. Covering the war years, Lawrence's American works, his time in Australia and Mexico, and the works of the last years of his life, this book provides readers with a complete analysis, during this period, of Lawrence as a religious man, thinker and artist.

Introduction: Lawrence and the Study of Religion
1. The Struggle with Congregationalism: The Early Years
2. Re-Writing the Bible: The Rainbow
3. The Metaphysics of Blood: Women in Love and the War Years
4. The Cultured Animist: Native American Religion
5. The Dark God: Kangaroo and The Plumed Serpent
6. Throwing Back the Apple: The Return to Eden
Bibliography
Index