Pynchon's Religion

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

 Doug Millison wrote:

I still haven't read _The Gnostic Pynchon_ but I've heard
that it discusses in some detail the way TRP deals with
religion in his writing.


see: Eddins for Pynchon/modernism/gnosticism. Eddins,
Dwight. The Gnostic Pynchon. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990. 


 Pynchon criticism is rich in studies of the spiritual
dimension of his work. See for instance Hite, Weisenburger,
LeClair, and Porush. LeClair and Porush, particularly,
recognize that Pynchon's engagement with spirituality is
inflected by postmodern styles of thought. 

Also see:

Mendelson, Edward. "The Sacred, the Profane, and The Crying
of Lot 49. Pynchon: a
Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice
Hall, 1978. 112-145. 

Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 41, number 1, Spring 1995,
141-163. 
Postmodern/Post-Secular: Contemporary Fiction and
Spirituality by John A. McClure

 "Those like Slothrop, with the greatest interest in
discovering the
truth, were thrown back on dreams, psychic flashes, omens,
cryptographies, drug-epistemologies, all dancing on a ground
of terror, contradiction, absurdity" 

TF