I Think It's a Question We Never Want to Ask Ourselves as Historians of Religion

Raman: I'm a little wary of swinging to the other end of the pendulum dramatically and saying that religion can only be studied effectively from a position of nototal, usually secular, detachment. And i'm going to o now, controversially say here, and annoy half our listeners, that secularism is also a faith commitment, which, you know, needs to be interrogated in the same ways as religion. But it's worth asking if historians of religion can be trusted with their own faith traditions? Raman: From my own point of view, i think they they canu not always. Sometimes the external critical eye is needed. And and sometimes the eye of ampathy and experience