I always thought that Rice's turn to religion was a combination of the familiar turning to religion when a loved one becomes ill (her husband's cancer and his death) and personal illness strikes, and a shrewd jump on the growing Christian fiction market bandwagon.
Since that market didn't accept her with wide open arms and accept her previous work on her terms, she seems to have redefined her beliefs and dismissed organized religion and its labels, ditched New Orleans and is in the process of reinventing herself.
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