本篇論文主要論述的是美國印地安齊佩瓦族與天主教之間的宗教衝突與融合。藉由路薏絲．鄂萃曲《愛情靈藥》中角色的宗教衝突、身分認同和愛恨糾葛點出宗教融合以及和解的可能性。
在第一章中，將探討混血女孩瑪麗以及修女麗歐波達之間的衝突、自我矛盾以及對於這兩個宗教之間的困惑。他們的衝突使得瑪莉在他的餘生當中，拒絕了天主教，並且信奉了齊佩瓦傳統宗教。直到瑪莉學會原諒麗歐波達之後，她的創傷才被醫治，也才能重新接納天主教並提供文化融合的可能性。
在第二章中，主要探討的是天主教影響下的女性美德與母親的典範。珍、瑪莉以及蘆蘆的出現，代表了不同的母親形象，也打破了所謂的天主教女性典範，並重建充滿新齊佩瓦風格的女性形象。雖然這個新的女性形象和天主教的形象有所衝突，但是他們卻意外造就了兩個信仰之間彼此溝通的可能性。
在第三章中，將討論愛情靈藥的醫治能量。它所包含的不只是齊佩瓦的傳統藥草能量，作者更提供了一個天主教中相愛的能量，愛情靈藥不僅僅醫治了書中角色所受的創傷，更修復了瑪莉、蘆蘆和奈克特之間的愛恨糾葛。透過愛情靈藥的醫治力量，天主教與齊佩瓦宗教之間的衝突得以舒緩並融合。
《愛情靈藥》這本書的結構是互相交錯，而非按照時間順序排列而成。它擁有著印地安式的時間編排方式，但是同時也有者基督教的元素。透過兩個之間互相交織的敘述和架構，顯示出鄂萃曲認為透過相互的尊重、了解以及溝通，能夠讓這兩個相互衝突的宗教找到和解的可能性。

Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine is built around conflicts between Catholicism and Ojibwe traditional belief. Erdrich uses religious conflicts and identity crisis to provide a possibility of religious syncretism between the two religious beliefs.
Chapter One uses Marie Lazarre and Sister Leopolda’s fight to show a mixed-blood girl’s self-contradiction and confusion of these religious beliefs. Their fights make Marie reject Catholicism in the rest of her life. In middle age, she chooses Ojibwe belief and totally forsakes the Catholic God. Not until she can forgive Sister Leopolda can her trauma be healed and provide a possibility of cultural merging.
Chapter Two discusses the Catholic influence on the so-called feminine virtues and the mother paradigm on those mixed-bloods’ mothers. June Morrissey, Marie Lazarre and Lulu Nanapush all have their own ways to resist those female virtues and reestablish their Ojibwe female values. With the help of love medicine those women form a new image mixing Catholicism and Ojibwe spiritual belief.
Chapter Three discusses the healing power of love medicine that combines not merely Ojibwe belief but the doctrine of love in Catholicism. It heals the traumas of June, Marie and Lipsha Morrissey and also resolves the triangle between Marie, her husband Nector Kashpaw and Lulu. Through the work of love medicine those characters reunite and reconnect to their culture.
Love Medicine interweaves Ojibwe circular structure with Christian linear time in a chiasmus. The mixture in structure and narration shows Erdrich’s hopes through this novel to represent mutual respect, understanding and communication between two societies.

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