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Record W2331119916 · doi:10.5509/2007803455

Christian Evangelical Conversions and the Politics of Sri Lanka

2007· article· en· W2331119916 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Bruce Matthews

Bibliographic record

VenuePacific Affairs · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAsian Geopolitics and Ethnography
Canadian institutionsAcadia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSri lankaPoliticsReligious studiesPolitical scienceSociologyAncient historyHistoryPhilosophyLawSouth asia

Abstract

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Lanka remains a country in considerable political distress. The most visible and serious dimension of this is a continuing low-intensity civil war between the state and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), largely confined to the north and east but steadily moving south into the heartland of the Buddhist majority.1 This has exacerbated ethnic and religious tensions. The majority Sinhalese (15 million or 75 percent of the population) are largely Buddhist (and the armed forces of the state are almost totally Buddhist) , and the LTTE are at least in part culturally associated with Hinduism. Although the ethnic conflict should not be described in terms of a religious struggle (the LTTE have a secessionist political agenda and are not promoters of Hinduism), nonetheless the horrendous cost (68,000 deaths, one million people displaced, an economy that has not achieved its full potential) of more-or-less continuous civil war for 24 years (despite an ostensible cease-fire since February 2002) has intensified Buddhist nationalism and arguably made it more bellicose. It should be recognized that with over one million adherents each, Christianity and Islam are also major non-Buddhist faiths in Sri Lanka (Christians comprise about 7.5 percent of the population, Muslims 7.6 percent).2 The Islamic peoples (Ceylon Moors) have had their problems with Buddhist antipathy (e.g., antiMuslim riots in 1915, and current struggles to have a role in the political destiny of the contested Eastern Province) . But Islam is not marked with the stigma of the colonial experience, and has never had the political and social influence associated with Christianity. Further, Islam does not outwardly engage in mission proselytization in Sri Lanka and is no threat to the religious status quo or to Buddhist nationalism. Hinduism likewise appears politically quiescent, though this was not always the case.3 Yet today a religious situation

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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)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.043

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.017
Scholarly communication0.0050.001
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.001

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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.275
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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Published2007
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