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The debate over liturgical practices such as Sunday Mass, Baptism or the funeral service has resurged, sometimes in a fiery way, among Catholic circles, and the sociologists' role in this debate has not been insignificant. The debate centers around the question of "popular religion " and therefore takes up theoretical and practical antagonisms such as " elite- masses," " traditionalists-innovators," and " multitudinal Church-sectarian Church."