deceased at the age of 92 on 18 February 2017 in Bagneux, François-André Isambert was the last of the founding members still alive of the Group of Sociology of Religions set up at the CNRS in 1954 by lawyer Gabriel Le Bras and moderated by Henri Desroche. This group made itself known through its journal, the Archives of Sociology of Religions, which became archives of social sciences of religions since 1973. Also an active member for some 30 years of the Revue française de soc...