Religious studies Question

 J.Z. Smith claimed allegory “is by no agency an innocent endeavor.” Describe how this has been accurate in the history of religious studies, abnormally in the ambience of the analytic categories we accept studied, including race, colonialism, and gender. Describe how you anticipate we as academics, while never absolutely objective, can abate some of the affliction means allegory has been accomplished (use the six guidelines for amenable comparison, reflectivity, and the insideroutsider problem).