To what extent can we logically speak of the secularity of contemporary global societies? Do they, like others, not need master myths enabling them to ensure their imaginary coherence in light of what would otherwise be perceived as chaos? Exploring the Durkheimian logic of these issues, the author uses Peter Berger's concept of religion, according to which religion represents «the establishment, through human activity, of a sacred order encompassing all reality, i.e., of a sacred cosmos which will be able to maintain its permanence in the face of chaos.» With this he attempts to uncover the traces of such a sacral cosmology, effacing the religious/secular disjunction, in contemporary beliefs and rituals which have been extricated from the framework of traditional religions. He thus discovers the complex configuration of a relationship to the world which, while intended to be completely secular and autonomous vis-à-vis religious meanings that continue to be circulated in society, fulfills the role played by the latter when they were able to provide a framework for global societies. This role is not found in the confession of a particular meaning, but in the implicit apprehension of an inherent meaning in the very order of the world, a meaning which need not be stated for it to be imposed.