Professor Michael G. Brennan 
George Orwell and Religion [PDF ebook] 

In his attitude toward religion, George Orwell has been characterised in various terms: as an agnostic, humanist, secular saint or even Christian atheist. Drawing on the full range of his public and private writings — from major works such as
Keep the Aspidistra Flying,
1984 and
Down and Out in Paris and London to his shorter journalism and private letters and journals —
George Orwell and Religion is a major reassessment of Orwell»s life-long engagement with religion. Exploring Orwell»s life and work, Michael Brennan illuminates for the first time how this profound engagement with religion informed the intensely humanitarian spirit of his writings.