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Record W2319506427 · doi:10.3138/jrpc.19.1.001

<i>American Idol</i>(atry): A Religious Profanation

2008· article· en· W2319506427 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Sabatino DiBernardo

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Religion and Popular Culture · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicStudy and Philosophy of Religion
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEthosTheme (computing)CounterpointPostmodernismPopular cultureAestheticsSociologyWestern cultureCulture of the United StatesReligious studiesHistoryArtLiteraturePhilosophyMedia studiesPolitical scienceLaw

Abstract

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It may seem as though religion, and along with it the prophetic voice, is and has long been on a steady decline in terms of wider societal and spiritual significance in our increasingly postmodern Western culture. This paper will provide a theoretical counterpoint to this prevailing ethos by means of reflection upon the reappearance and recontexualization of the perennial Western theological notion of idol(atry). The resurrection of this theme by means of the “reality” television show American Idol will serve as an entrance point into (popular) music culture in an attempt to distill potential religio-theological implications for contemporary culture.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.015

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.005
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.240
Teacher spread0.219 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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