For the children's souls: Child, church and community in Indiana, 1801–1851
Bibliographic record
Abstract
By examining the religious education of children in six Indiana towns—Delphi, Evansville, Lafayette, Madison, Richmond, and Rising Sun—this study attempts to illuminate the attitudes of the English-speaking, Protestant parents of these communities toward the rapid changes then occurring in each town. Improved transportation networks brought both population increases and greater access to goods produced elsewhere and distant markets for local goods. New ideas, new opportunities, and new goods presented religious parents with the task of how to teach their children to reap the benefits of their towns’ inclusion in a growing capitalist society, while avoiding the spiritual dangers contained therein. Within the context of the church, the Sunday school, and home-based family worship, these adults accomplished this by instilling in their impressionable children the habits of industry and economy, reverence for the Sabbath, and teaching them how to make correct choices regarding friends, associates, and amusements. In addition, early Indiana remained a dangerous place in which to grow to adulthood, as a spectrum of diseases claimed a disproportionate number of children under the age of ten. By utilizing the image of the Pious Dying Child, Hoosier parents kept the specter of childhood death before their children’s eyes as an encouragement to seek conversion as early in life as possible.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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".