Paul Bramadat and David Seljak, Eds. Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada
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Abstract
Paul Bramadat and David Seljak, eds. Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 448 pp. $100.00 hc. $49.95 sc. Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada is a companion volume to the anthology Religion and Ethnicity in Canada (2005), also edited by Paul Bramadat and David Seljak. Both are published under the auspices of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. A third volume on Aboriginal religiosity in Canada is anticipated. The collected essays on Christianity are an impressive addition to scholarly writings about religion in Canada. Each of the eleven chapters runs about 35 pages in length and shares a common format and conceptual discourse with the others. As a whole, the collection observes the way ethnicity is emerging as one of the most important dimensions of modern religious phenomena (xi), while surveying the significance of ethnicity in the most populace Christian communities across Canada. The emphasis is primarily historical and sociological, punctuated with ethnographic details. In my view, the anthology strikes just the right balance of academic erudition and ease of reference. It is a timely and valuable collection. Coverage includes: Roman Catholicism, with separate chapters on Anglophone and Allophone (Mark McGowan) and Francophone (Solange Lefebvre) communities; Anglicanism (Wendy Fletcher); Presbyterianism and Reformed Christians (Stuart MacDonald); the United Church of Canada (Greer Anne Wenh-in Ng); Lutheranism (Bryan Hillis); Eastern Christians (Myroslaw Tataryn); Mennonites (Royden Loewen); and Evangelical Protestants (Bruce Guenther). Due to the thoughtful planning of the editors, the essays have several features in common. Each chapter begins with an often poignant narrative, typically serving as a signpost for roads since traveled or future roads to come. The contributions each offer concise surveys of the often complex histories of the Christian denominations in Canada, identifying key figures and controversies within that history, providing an outline of perceived present and future challenges (particularly concerning gender and sexuality), and describing the role of immigration and ethnicity as constitutive of past and existing membership. In terms of concepts and topics, the editors and contributors manage to come quite close to creating an evenly keeled monograph. The essays are similarly structured and address the institutional completeness of the denomination within the Canadian context and examine responses to discourses of loss pertaining to dwindling resources and membership. The common themes and shared vocabulary is a real strength given the usual haphazard nature of collected writings. …
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.006 |
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".