Through engagement with a range of recent publications, this article offers a mini-ethnography of wonder discourses in the anthropology of ontology, leading to a rethink of the concept of religion. It has sometimes been suggested that science and religion are antithetical orientations to the experience of wonder: whereas science seeks to banish wonder by replacing it with knowledge, religion remains open to wonder in the face of the unknowable. With this criterion of difference in view, this article identifies certain trends in the anthropology of ontology that appear to enjoin and pursue open-ended wonder in ways that might be read as constituting anthropology as religious science. This coincidence of supposed opposites recommends, I conclude, a relational account of religion. A partir d'une lecture de plusieurs publications récentes, le présent article présente une mini-ethnographie des discours sur l'émerveillement dans l'anthropologie de l'ontologie qui conduit à repenser le concept de religion. On a parfois suggéré que la science et la religion étaient des approches antithétiques de l'expérience de l'émerveillement : alors que la science cherche à bannir l'émerveillement en le remplaçant par le savoir, la religion reste ouverte à l'émerveillement face à l'inconnaissable. Compte tenu de cette différence, l'article identifie certaines tendances dans l'anthropologie de l'ontologie qui semblent susciter et rechercher un émerveillement en forme de questionnement ouvert, d'une manière qui pourrait, selon son interprétation, instituer l'anthropologie comme une science religieuse. En conclusion, cette coïncidence de contraires supposés milite pour que soit fait un compte-rendu de la religion sous un angle relationnel.
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