The (re)publication in the Bibliothèque Idéale des Sciences Sociales (Bi2S) of the work of Georges Liénard and Émile Servais finally brings to the attention of the scientific community an unjustly unknown investigation.The new preface by Stéphane Bonnéry, underline its precursory character for the sociology of education and children.

This volume proposes to examine anew a classic but largely neglected question in the social sciences: that of the articulation between religions and social classes. The eleven surveys brought together here bring it up to date and analyze its role in the construction of social boundaries as well as in the reproduction or questioning of inequalities