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Record W2948001300 · doi:10.1093/jahist/jaz185

Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State

2019· article· en· W2948001300 on OpenAlex
Matt McCook

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of American History · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAmerican Constitutional Law and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProclamationState (computer science)MonarchyLawIndigenousNarrativeCeremonySociologyHistoryDramaPolitical scienceReligious studiesPoliticsTheologyLiteraturePhilosophyArt

Abstract

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This volume from the University of Chicago Press's Trios series offers three essays that complicate Eurocentric treatments of church-state relations. These case studies demonstrate that in the New World religion and government were inescapably entangled in the constituting of new peoples. The Greek concept of ekklesia, a called-out community, with its rituals, ceremonies, symbols, and exclusions, provides the central theme. The authors, a trinity of established scholars, were brought together by the American Academy of Religion and mutual interests in religion, anthropology, and comparative and legal studies. Paul Christopher Johnson, in the first essay, details the creation of the Brazilian community drawn to the prophet-like Antônio Conselheiro at Canudos and the suppression of this group by the new republic in 1897. Johnson analyzes the material culture, rituals, poetry, and songs of rival ekklesia, one claiming to be the people of the new republic and the other unfairly labeled a horde. Conflicts over taxation, race, monarchy, civil marriage, and the authority of church and state led to the sacrifice of thousands. Now part of Brazil's national narrative, the story of Canudos's destruction by church and state demonstrates the complexity of their relationship. As does Pamela E. Klassen's essay in which she analyzes treaties between Canadian authorities and Native Americans and their significance in creating unique church-state relations. Klassen also focuses on material culture, detailing the physical description of King George III's Royal Proclamation of 1763 and Elizabeth II's ring of reconciliation ceremony in 2016. Indigenous peoples' celebration of these objects as ongoing, sacred promises demonstrates the significance of treaties in defining a people and fits nicely with the ekklesia theme. Already complex by the nature of the commonwealth government, Canadian church-state relations are even messier when native people are considered, as they must be. The third essay, by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, argues that banning Bibles from the jury room in the penalty phase of a trial gives the illusion that decisions will be rational and uninfluenced by religion. The real concern, however, is not the presence of a Bible that may unduly influence jury members and thus violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, but that the jury called out from among the people to make life and death decisions are given little guidance for how they should make such decisions. Some figures, such as Antonin Scalia, have argued that Americans still favor the death penalty because of their largely Christian sensibilities about sin, punishment, and personal responsibility. But Sullivan suggests it is instead uncertainties of sovereignty that perpetuate the death penalty in America.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.943
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.276
Teacher spread0.257 · 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