How Has the Writing of History Changed in the Last 50 Years?

In virtually all our cases as historians of religion, we have been part of a process of stepping back from the religions which we study to look at them and walk round them in ways which historians might not have done before. I think the movement has also been more complicated in the fact that a colonial scholarship glorified in the distance it placed between the historian and his nomaly, hisa subject. And oddly enough, what happens is you end up, for example, with me, in talking to fellow indians to say, you do realize that the narrative of the politics of christianity is challenged by christian scholars in the west. So tat te, these kind of historical minal