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This article is the first critical review of the francophone management literature on religion at work in the French context. The literature is sparse, and there are still few researchers working on this issue. Our work consists of a systematic review that allows us to identify seven areas of research in the field of management: management of religion; the religious origin of current management practices; developing businesses through religious precepts; the religious inspiration of leaders; the religious essence of the entrepreneurial approach; the religious approach to marketing strategy; and religious ethics in finance. In addition, it highlights a certain predominance of Islam in the “management of religion” axis, which is the one that attracts the most attention from researchers. Finally, it enables studies to be positioned on a constraint/resource continuum regarding the way in which they consider religion. Our work culminates in a three-stage research program that includes a disciplinary anchoring in HRM called for by practice and enabled by the maturity of the subject; the use of other methodologies and a focus on the needs of practitioners; and finally, the opening up of debate on the reflexivity of researchers, and a reflection on the impact of the published work on the subject under examination.