任何读过毛姆文学作品的人,都会被其对人性的深刻洞察,冷淡而优雅的讽刺手法留下深刻的印象。毛姆对罪恶的绝望,对神职人员的虚伪的揭露,有意无意的对基督教义的讽刺几乎贯穿他的每部作品,淋漓尽致的表达了他的反基督教的倾向,正如他一再宣称,自己为不可知论者。本文通过对他最具代表性的几个文本的分析,探究毛姆极其矛盾的宗教观,他的作品中时隐时现的救赎观恰恰是基督教义的最好体现。对宗教的依赖,对宗教的否定,最终求助于东方神秘 Anyone who has read Maugham’s literary works will be impressed by his profound insight into human nature and his cold and elegant satire. Maugham’s despair of sin, the hypocrisy of the clergy, his deliberate satire on Christian doctrine runs through almost every piece of his work, and vividly expresses his anti-Christian tendencies, as he repeatedly claims himself as not Knowable. Through the analysis of several of his most representative texts, this article explores the extremely contradictory religious view of Maugham. The salvation concept in his works is the best expression of Christianity. Dependence on religion, the negation of religion, eventually resorted to Oriental mystery