| Summary: | In a society marked by secularization, the Danielle Hervieu-leger’s concept of “exculturation” reports the process of “disconnection”, a kind of disruption between the plural social collective culture and that one of the church. Besides, in the public sphere, religion is regularly on the media limelight particularly in reference to its dysfunctions (secrets, pedophilia…). In 2012, a french television series called Ainsi soient-ils, produced and broadcasted by Arte, deals with religion at prime time. Characters quote short passages of the sacred texts; some biographies and theological studies (like those of Saint Augustin) are outlined. Profane texts or symbols also come to converse.This article questions this television series through the lens of the holy writings. Besides representations, we also want to enquire the various metatextual, intertextual and interdiscursive transactions that come forward throughout the episodes. This contribution aims to show the ability of a serial fiction to interrogate, to play with the sacred texts (often fossilized by the dogma and rituals) in order to suggest and provoke an ongoing social critical questioning on about both the contemporary believing and the social relationships.
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