Sacred Subdivisions: The Postsuburban Transformation of American Evangelicalism
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Abstract
“Its not about you,” promises megachurch pastor Rick Warren in his opening sentence of his mega-best-seller The Purpose Driven Life. But the design of his church, says Justin Wilford, betrays the opposite vision: “it is unswervingly and painstakingly about you” (71).Wilford does a number of these revealing reversals in his new book on Warren's Saddleback Church as he unpacks the geography of megachurches—or what he calls “the postdenominational evangelical church” (PDE). Wilford is a social geographer who has turned his PhD into a significant addition to the slowly expanding shelf of books on megachurches. His starting point is a critique of religious economy theory: these megachurches are not exploding simply because they have creative marketing campaigns. They grow because they mirror the postsuburban condition and offer a meaningful evangelical frame for that scrambled lifestyle. He examines the “particularly geographic strategies” these churches use to grow by “looking and listening to not just what they say and do, but where they are saying and doing it” (3–4). For Wilford place is not just a container for culture; it is itself a cultural agent.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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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.
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