Religious studies is a human, not a divine, way of knowing. Religion itself can bring divine or sacred knowledge, but the academic study of it is method related and time bound. This means that religion scholars, similar to other academic experts, are part of the “concrete epistemology” (ways of knowing) of current scholarly and cultural interests and current assumptions that different generations have about life. Religion scholars’ (and beginning students’) personal development, education, and individual religious experiences, as well as their generation-specific attitudes, all affect how they adopt and use a particular method of studying religion. Religious studies is conditioned in each generation by time, a fact that is often appreciated only by a later generation for whom temporal distance allows a better view.