| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-19页 |
| ·Comments on Player Piano | 第13-14页 |
| ·Comments on Cat's Cradle | 第14页 |
| ·Comments on Slaughterhouse-Five | 第14-15页 |
| ·Contradictory Opinions about Vonnegut's Religious Consciousness | 第15-17页 |
| ·ASummary of All of the Relevant Criticisms | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two From Nostalgia to Dissolution—On the Changing Process of Vonnegut's Religious Consciousness | 第19-42页 |
| ·Religious Nostalgia in Player Piano | 第19-27页 |
| ·The Note of Nostalgia | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Central Image | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Nostalgia for Religion | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Similarities between Vonnegut and Paul | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Unsmooth Way to Religious Nostalgia | 第24-27页 |
| ·Religious Absurdity in Cat's Cradle | 第27-37页 |
| ·The Parody of Christianity | 第28-32页 |
| ·The Similarities between Christianity and Bokononism | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Exaggerated Version of Christianity—Bokononism | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Absurdity of Bokonoism | 第32-34页 |
| ·The Creation and Destruction of Bokononism | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Absurd Content of Bokononism | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Understanding beyond Religious Absurdity | 第34-37页 |
| ·Religious Dissolution in Slaughterhouse-Five | 第37-42页 |
| ·The Implication of the Protagonist's Name | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Similarities between Billy Pilgrim and Jesus Christ | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Scapegoat Image of the Modern Christ—The Dissolution of Christianity | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter Three The Cultural Context of Vonnegut's Changing Process of Religious Consciousness | 第42-53页 |
| ·The Depressing World after World War II and the Trend of "Swing back toward Religion" | 第42-43页 |
| ·Existentialism—the Ideology Flooding in American at That Time | 第43-47页 |
| ·Kierkegaard's Theories of Religious Existentialism | 第43-45页 |
| ·Other Existentialists'Attitudes towards Religion | 第45-46页 |
| ·Existentialist Influence in Literature in General | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Influence of Existentialism on Vonnegut's Changing Process | 第47-53页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第53-56页 |
| Bibliography | 第56-58页 |
| Appendix | 第58页 |
