Abstract
Between the religion of the parents and the aspirations of their daughters, many lacunae make transmission difficult. In these areas as with all cultural questions, one observes a distancing on the part of the children. The parents' religion is in fact encumbered with numerous handicaps: their low social level and their origin (most often rural) have endowed them with popular religion, faith, beliefs and practices which the children readily judge to be naïve and which, objectively, would be insufficient to satisfy the aspirations of the educated young people. Besides, in the eyes of the young girls, this same religion is usually perceived as a “religion of the Father”, essentially constituted from a body of prescriptions, the expression of a patriarchal authoritarianism they reject. The Islam of the parents is only assumed by the daughters of Maugrabin immigrants as a component of identity: they concur in seeing themselves as “Muslim by descent”.