this article deals with the issue of ‘objects of the history of religions’. Although there are many kinds of historians specialising in economic, social, military history, etc. in history departments, there are never religious historians. How can this be explained? One possible answer is that specialists from different religions view their ‘objects’ as belonging exclusively to their discipline and not to the wider field in which they participate. A second reason may be that many religious historians use anhistorical terms such as ‘sacred’ or ‘Abrahamic religions’. This article concludes that if there are universally recognised objects, they must be of the order of everyday life.