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Record W174678411

Prophet's Prey

2015· article· en· W174678411 on OpenAlexaff
Rubina Ramji, Jodi McDavid

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Religion & Film · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMormonism, Religion, and History
Canadian institutionsCape Breton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWifeBrotherReligious studiesFavouritePietySisterBishopsConvictionNephew and nieceTheologySociologyLawHistoryPolitical sciencePhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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(2014)Directed by Amy BergThis documentary follows author Jon Krakauer and private investigator Sam Brower as they uncover abuses, underage marriages and eventual conviction of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS) leader Warren Jeffs. Known as the Prophet, Warren succeeded his father Rulon's role as head of organization upon his death. Although he was second son of Rulon, by all accounts his mother was favourite wife, placing him in a favored position as well. Sam Brower (who wrote a book based on same name as film), was investigating Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), led by Rulon Jeffs.The film interviews relatives of Warren Jeffs including his estranged nephew, an ex-wife (his sixty-third wife, Janetta Jessop), and his brother and sister who all leftthe group. Some of these relatives report that they were (essentially ex-communicated) and removed from their property, community, their families, and their way of life. Casting out has further religious implications, because when men are cast out of FLDS, they no longer hold priesthood, their role as spiritual leader in their family. These interviews and those with private investigators and reporters provide an understanding of how this underground polygamous group stayed under radar of police and state officials, including telling accounts from Warren's brother about how community was bankrolled by the Prophet's declarations that his followers should part with their worldly goods and provide him with funds in order to ensure their piety for end of world. The church trust had amassed $110 million in assets.Even at a young age Warren Jeffs enjoyed privileges and was allowed to run rudimentary school that served congregation. He wanted to be next prophet after his father, and set out to create a culture of adoration, fear and dependence, so that members felt they could not leave or did not want to leave. This culture of keeping sweet and being required to submit to elders also allowed him to sexually abuse students under his care. After his father died in 2002, Warren created a school system specifically to prepare youth for the Holy Ghost, created a dress code for girls and instilled a sense of impending doom; only those who followed priesthood of Warren Jeffs, truly faithful, would survive coming apocalypse. Although Warren predicted coming of apocalypse numerous times, it did not occur. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.661
Threshold uncertainty score0.378

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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