The learned practice of religion: A review of the history of Religious Studies in Canada and its portent for the future
Bibliographic record
Abstract
I will argue here that a history of the study of religion in the Canadian academic context will reveal it to be little more than an extension of the kind of intellectual treatment religion receives in traditional religious contexts. To put it bluntly, I believe that an examination of "Religious Studies" in Canada will uncover a fundamental affinity between its "brand" of Religionswissenschaft and what is traditionally recognized as Glaubenswissenschaft, and, consequently, that it has contributed more to the leamed practice of religion than it has to the creation of a scientific study of religion. I will further argue that no scientific study of religion (rather than scientific analyses of particular aspects or elements of religious traditions) can possibly emerge on the Canadian scene until scholars in the field transcend the aim of making possible for their students the achievement of a new kind of religiosity or the creation of a more inclusive culture/society.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.014 | 0.038 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| 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".