You Call that “Christian”? Language Use and Evangelism in the Music of a Mennonite Family in Mexico
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Abstract
through the song practices of a single family. The Heides family left their conserving Old Colony church in the 1990s to join an Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference church in the same colony. In addition to differing theological emphases, these churches differ in what forms of music are deemed appropriate in worship. As the author observes, the family’s transition has affected their music making with regard to repertoire choices and language use. Further, their ongoing relationships with Old Colony family and community members add new layers of negotiation in their efforts to use music for evangelical ends. On July 31, 1874, the first of what would be 8,000 Prusso-Russian Mennonites migrated to the Canadian prairies from the steppes of Russia. This pacifist religious group with roots in the sixteenth-century Anabaptist movement sought religious freedoms that involved military exemption, the opportunity to run their own schools in High German, and land upon which to establish agrarian settlements. Some of these Mennonites along with many of their descendants have come to be known as Alte Kolonier, or Old Colony Mennonites, so named because of their roots in the Chortitza Colony, or Old Colony, in Russia (J. Friesen 2007:77). Despite the agricultural success of
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".