Abstract
This article tests the following hypothesis: values would become the dominant form for referentials, particularly among youth, ideologies and religions being partially reinterpreted, in a general restructuring. The decline of ideologies would prove a relative advantage for “axiologies” (value-systems), which are more open than ideologies, especially for basic values of human rights within a pluralist democracy, which, referring to Weber, form a “monotheism of values”. The role of religion in public life would depend very much on its axiological contribution. Religious attitudes are characterized by a certain relativism or syncretism, by a pragmatic adaptation to the goal of worldly happiness and by a differentiation between rather a “cultural christianity” (in the majority) or a “confessing christianity”.