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Record W3193502055

Apostles of the New Age

2000· article· en· W3193502055 on OpenAlexaff
Ronald Niezen

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMormonism, Religion, and History
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndividualismAlienationCompromiseSpiritualityPost-industrial societyEnvironmental ethicsAestheticsSociologySpiritualismPolityPolitical scienceGender studiesSocial scienceLawPhilosophyPolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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A radical shift has taken place, from selective or universal prohibition of native spiritual practices in efforts toward assimilation to their celebration as a solution to individualism, alienation, rampant technology — all the perceived ills of postindustrial society.The development of a mass audience outside the native community, hungering for authenticity but uninformed and indiscriminate in its tastes, is seen to have placed an enormous strain on the integrity and cultural viability of many forms of native spirituality. If there is a literary antecedent to New Age spiritualism and its efforts to derive benefit from the sacred places, rituals, and beliefs of Native Americans, it is to be found in a nineteenth-century body of literature, including the work of Thoreau and Emerson, that glorifies nature rather than the Indian, and individualism rather than the religious community. The practices that have emerged within the New Age movement have a potential to reinforce stereotypes and compromise the status of those who continue to see spiritual awareness as a long and sometimes difficult process, as an “ordeal.”

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.761
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.196
Teacher spread0.184 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2000
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