By Walter Miller. Monks preserve humanity's scientific knowledge following a nuclear war, until the world is once again ready for it.

By Frank Herbert. The Bene Gessert in the Dune series is a long-standing political and religious force that uses its power to guide humanity to its own goals, it is a force that dominates history but does not have much individual faith.

By Jacek Dukaj. In this Polish short story collection the story “Cathedral” is about a priest who travels to a moon of Jupiter's to investigate an alien artifact that resembles a gothic cathedral.

By James Blish. A Jesuit investigates an alien race who has no religion, but has a perfect and innate sense of morality.

By Marion Zimmer Bradley. The first book, chronologically, of Bradley's Darkover series, about accidental colonists who crash landed on an inhospitable planet. One of the main characters is Father Valentine, the ship's chaplain

By Gordon Harris. A spaceman lands near Florida and seeks refuge in a church. A minister takes him in and the government searches for him. He is an alien, who believes in the son of God.

By Lester Del Ray This story begins with the sufferings of Reverend Amos Strong whose family members are killed off during an alien invasion and only gets more complicated.

By Margaret Atwood. In the near future the government has been overthrown by a totalitarian Christian theocracy and is told from the perspective of a handmaid, who has no autonomy in the totalitarian state.

By Mary Doria Russell. A team is sent to a newly discovered planet to make contact with an unknown species. The team is made up of four Jesuit priests, an astronomer, a physician, an engineer, a child-prostitute turned computer expert.

By Sharon Shinn. In the final book in the Samaria Trilogy a serial killer begins stalking priestesses of two religions. A man, who has lost his faith, is assigned to the case.