Abstract
Going through the various contributions of this issue, the Author of this «point of view» emphazies the need, in any study of the three-cornered play between religion, values and everyday life, to take into account all the cultural, geographical and deno micational contexts which can make the observations and theori zations which can be extracted from different epistemological pre suppositions, vary considerably.
Likewise, should one not try to extract the diachronic impli cations which make it possible to reintroduce the everyday into the framework of a historical reality from documentation - col lected by sociologists of everyday life — which is apparently strictly synchronic and «cold» (in the sense which Lévi-Strauss gives this term).
Without these efforts, one would not perceive that everyday life is to history what parts are to the whole: it refers to a context in which everyday life takes on its authentic and ulimate meaning.