Abstract
This article takes as its starting-point the dearth of ethnographic research work in the three monotheist religions: Christianity, Islam and Judaism, especially in their occidental, institutional and contemporary forms. The author analyses the causes of this situation: first, the connection between the ethnological object and the idea of “otherness”; second, the theoretical background of the sociology of religion (Durkheim-Weber). The author discusses the main approaches to observation research work. Finally, he suggests how ethnographic work in these monotheisms might be stimulated and how a praxis of the religious field might be constructed. Interactionism, constructivism, methodological theism and avoidance of overinterpretation are the hallmarks of his suggested approach.