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Record W2125344982 · doi:10.3138/jcs.48.2.70

Evangelical Christianity and Political Thought in Alberta

2014· article· en· W2125344982 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Clark Banack

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Canadian Studies · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAntipathyPoliticsSocial GospelIndividualismSociologyCollectivismChristianityEnvironmental ethicsSocialismPolitical economyReligious studiesLawPolitical sciencePhilosophyCommunism

Abstract

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This essay explores the influence of religion on the political thought of three key leaders from Alberta’s political history and its subsequent impact on both the populist movements they led and the broader political development of Alberta. Although significant theological differences existed between the religious outlooks of Henry Wise Wood of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) on the one hand, and William Aberhart and Ernest Manning of Alberta Social Credit on the other, both of these views were built atop an individualistic evangelical Christian foundation that differed in important ways from the social gospel movement prevalent on the Canadian Prairies in the first half of the twentieth century. This shared individualistic theology helped to generate varying levels of antipathy towards state-led collectivist arrangements in both the UFA and Alberta Social Credit, eventually blossoming into Manning’s outright vilification of socialism in the 1950s and 1960s. The essay concludes with some thoughts on the relationship between these religion-based streams of political thought and Alberta’s broader political trajectory in general and its consistent rejection of left-leaning political parties in particular.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.740
Threshold uncertainty score0.273

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.287
Teacher spread0.263 · 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

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