We understand that “There are innumerable definitions of religion, and every philosopher has one to suggest” (Bastide 2003 [1935], 3), and we also know that the etymology of the word ‘religion’ is contested. We follow Michel Serres, and other scholars of our time, who read the term as an offspring of the Latin religare (to bind fast). Beginning from nothing, reaching out to everything, religion, Serres and others claim, “holds everything together, like a conductor who, by his gestures, unifies the various instruments and sections of an orchestra (Serres 2022, 67)”. Without immediately reducing religion to its dominant, institutionalized (homogeneous?) global representatives and how they matter to the everyday life of the city dweller today, this very elementary definition of Serres allows us to study how religion matters to the everyday lives of communities and societies. It allows us to study in what way a binding together matters to the here and now and to the land of milk and honey it projects (the good life, the eventual paradise on earth). Is it even possible to gather without somehow realizing such a bond ‘from nothing to everything’, and to have shared ideas on how this can ideally be done best?