Religion, State, and the United Nations: Value Politics. <i>Edited by Anne Stensvold</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
An installment in a Routledge series focused on studies in religion and politics, the present volume brings together fourteen academics from the United States, UK, and Europe (mostly Swedish scholars) who have contributed eleven chapters dealing with both (1) the role of religion within the United Nations system and (2) the functioning of UN policies and norms within nation-states. The result is a somewhat eclectic, yet highly informative collection of essays. Over the arc of the book, we learn of the growing spaces accorded to religion at the UN and various modes of influence its international norms exercise at the intersections of religion and state. For example, Jeffrey Hayes’ chapter on the UN Alliance of Civilizations demonstrates how, in accord with Samuel Huntington’s civilizational framing that was often marked by religiosity, inter-religious dialogue was activated for its potential as a bridge to avoid a cleavage along civilization fractures. For her part, Katherine Marshall, in two separate chapters, employs her insider perspective to unfold some of the many roles that religion has played on the UN stage. Marshall also delves into how the UN has been constructed and critiqued from religious perspectives in the United States, including as having ambition for world government shaded in apocalyptic terms. Another noteworthy chapter by Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati traces the development in the post-revolutionary Tunisian constitution (2014), which avoids the language of Shariah while creatively naming Islam as part of the socio-cultural heritage of the country in its opening clause. In this light, Zorgati convincingly argues for the constitution of the second Tunisian republic as being entangled with UN norms to the benefit of a broadening of its political community in a fashion that both circumvents the traditionally influential Maliki School of Islamic jurisprudence by appealing directly to the Qur’an and incorporates international human rights language.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.005 |
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".