Lutheran Communion Celebrating Gender Justice and Women Leadership in an Ongoing Reformation
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Abstract
Contextualized approachy narrative emerges from the paths where my feet are standing and walking and from the spaces and experiences of relationships with sisters and brothers around the global Lutheran Communion.These interactions are shaping and molding my knowledges.The Lutheran World Federation -LWF -is a Communion of 145 member churches, grounded in Lutheran faith, from all corners of the world.Working in this global communion I have learned that a multi perspective approach to faith and to religious experience cannot but be the way to be in communion.The Communion's work on gender justice and women's empowerment and leadership cannot be taken in a monolithic or uniform perspective.The ways and means of empowering women and struggling for gender just relations and structures in Brazil do not define what actions should be taken in Nigeria or Malaysia.Every context necessitates and has its own unique approach on gender justice.A contextual methodology is crucial to effective results and achievements on gender justice and women in leadership in the global Lutheran Communion.A contextual perspective also helps to avoid the (sometimes hidden) assumption that notions of empowerment, gender justice and leadership are defined, not with a diverse experience and possibilities, but, based on experiences situated in the Global North and West.Thus far it has been from this geopolitics that power and leadership were normally defined, and the difficulty in unveiling this assumption is that it comes crystallized, in general, with notions of being "universal," "scientific," "academic," and "objective."What is named as knowledge and how it is build is a political debate.I am situating myself in a circle of discussion that defines knowledges, in plural and with a clear intention of embedded transformation.I am referring to Boaventura Sousa Santos' definition of "knowledges from the South," where South is used not as a geographical point, but as a metaphor to name "human suffering caused by capitalism and colonialism at the global level, and a metaphor as well to the resistance to overcome or minimise such suffering.It is an anti-capitalistic, anti-imperialistic and anti-colonialistic metaphor."3 1 Elaine Neuenfeldt is the executive secretary for Women in Church and Society (WICAS) of the Department for Theology and Public Witness (DTPW) at the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), in Geneva. 2 Traveler, your footprints | are the only road, nothing else; | Traveler, there is no road, | you make your own path as you walk. 3
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".