An American Evangelical Missionary's Responses to the Africanization of Christianity: Mabel Easton Buyse in the Lake Albert Region, 1917-1936
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Evangelical American Africa Inland Mission (AIM) missionary Mabel Easton Buyse arrived in the region north of Uganda's Lake Albert in 1917. Between 1917-1936, her diaries and letters reveal that she experienced shifts in her understanding of Christianity as she witnessed East Africans adopt Christianity into their own cultural contexts. During this period, Easton Buyse came to accept the validity of African styles of Christian leadership and modesty because of her contact with the Africanization of Christianity. At the same time, her contact with Africanized Christianity reinforced her condemnation of many African cultural practices including polygamy and traditional mourning rites. Easton Buyse's experience of African Christian practice impacted her understanding of what appropriate Christian practices could be. Her experience also highlights how African Christians made the European forms of Christianity offered to them by missionaries their own by adopting Christian ideas into their own cultural frameworks. Her responses to different African understandings of Christianity during her time as a missionary are an example of how faith is constantly on the move in the context of mission: both within new cultural contexts, and within missionaries themselves.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".