Abstract
All historical writing, he said, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.1 The search for peace of mind has taken on more than one form in this new twenty-first century. Conscious that we remain bound to the sources that are available to us and in many ways to the received interpretive frameworks that have defined each historians own training, historians have taken it upon themselves to find peace of mind by revising predecessors in the search of improved and understandably more inclusive narratives for an increasingly diverse society. Samuel Price argued that in the modern West "the centrality of 'religious belief' ... has sometimes led to the feeling that belief is a distinct and natural capacity which is shared by all human beings. Just as the words and actions[and Facebook post, Instagram photos, and Tweets] of religious leaders are susceptible to scrutiny by online sources, so the Internet can create spaces for people to re-examine the doctrines, symbols, and practices of religious traditions." Because of the increased breadth and diversity of Internet users, they note, "more people have been given access to a global audience for their ideas, creating new sources of authority."