Donald,I emailed you my paper yesterday.  If you could please let me know what you think.  I too, had always assumed history was a separate field.  The postmodernists do not believe so and I was not aware of the effect that postmodernists had on history until I started reading more about it.  The postmodern view is multi-disciplinary, they see no distinction, so talking history and religion is appropriate in this instance.  To a postmodern thinker all disciplines are one and therefore they can be inclusive of all.  They try to be jacks of all trades but end up knowing just enough about what they write about to get themselves in trouble.  They are fine with this though, because they hold that all views are equally valid unless you disagree with the basics of postmodernism, in which case you are just wrong and subject to being mocked and ridiculed for your outdated beliefs.