Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction Scholars working at the interstices of the religious, the literary and the postcolonial have concerned themselves almost exclusively with the role and representation of Christianity. Occasionally confessional in tone, historians of various stripes have detailed the religion’s global dispersion and assessed the continental, regional and local impact of different Christian denominations, focusing upon their evangelizing agendas and missionary wings. Some accounts examine the work of individual clerics and ecclesiastical institutions, while others analyse vying forms of scriptural interpretation and understanding during and after empire and colonization, as well as the innovative Christian critiques of Europe’s overseas legacy that constitute so-called ‘liberation’ and ‘local’ theologies. A few commentators have subjected Christian scriptures, literary classics and theological categories, as well as church publications and missionary writings, to critical interrogation from decidedly nontheological perspectives and for expressly non-theological ends. And still others have explored the ways in which the Christian figures in the representation and misrepresentation of identity and power in encounters, conflicts and occasional accommodations between colonizer and colonized. In addition, drawing variously upon such resources, a handful of critics writing under the banner ‘postcolonial’ have gathered close readings of particular plays, poems, novels and instances of other literary genres into collections of scholarly essays focused upon particular theological or religious themes, tropes or topoi.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.002 |
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".