The purpose of the article is to examine how religion-bound phrases were translated. It aims to establish whether the translations are langue-oriented or parole-oriented. In order to determine how the religious references were rendered, the analysis is carried out according to the following criteria: the signifier versus the signified, the illusionist versus anti-illusionist approach, the cultural mediation versus intercultural mediation, explicitness versus implicitness. The translations under scrutiny include Oliwer Twist translated anonymously in 1845 and Dawid Copperfield rendered by Wilhelmina Zyndram-Kościałkowska in 1888. In the theoretical part of the article Dickens’s attitude towards religion is presented. Additionally, such concepts as langue and parole, the signifier and the signified, the illusionist and anti-illusionist approach, the notion of mediation, and the concept of markedness are to be discussed. The practical part constitutes the translation analysis of the religion-bound expressions. The selected source text samples are juxtaposed with their target text counterparts in order to determine how they were translated. It is also to be seen whether the examined translation excerpts can be identified as langue- or parole-oriented according to the criteria under scrutiny. Finally, conclusions are drawn.