Like the other social sciences, anthropology operates with secular premises of logic and empiricism. These tenets have manifold implications for those anthropologists who do ordinarily embrace religion in their lives, as well as for those anthropologists who have religious experiences during fieldwork. Must religious convictions and feelings be set to one side in order for one to engage in anthropological research? Must anthropology be secularist in order to proceed? Or can anthropologists begin to factor their own religious backgrounds, beliefs and experiences into their research and writing? These are some of the questions that must now be addressed in the current epistemological environment where reflexivity has become a component of objectivity