Transformations and Transmission – A Contextual Look at Religious Biographies of Older Adults
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Abstract
Abstract Examination of religious biographies tend to show increase of religiosity towards old age, most often in the context of a previously familiar religious community. These changes in individuals do not happen in a vacuum. Religious landscapes are also in transformation, characterized by a steady decline of institutional religiosity and religious practice in most European countries and more recently in the US and Canada, too. However, there is a dire lack of detailed knowledge on how these changes in individuals and societies are intertwined. This paper presents findings of the Finnish sub-project of the five-country research project “Transmission of religion across generations.” The paper utilizes both three-generation interviews, and the contextual information gathered in the families about the past and present generations. The narratives about religious biographies of the oldest (gen.1) interviewees are discussed, and set in the context of the changes in the surrounding social sphere and the interviewees’ role in the family. Key findings include a general trend of increased flexibility, openness and communication over time – both in the religious views of the individuals, the roles different generations take in the family, and the cultural atmosphere in the society. Also, the results suggest that this flexibility is an essential factor in successful transmission of religion or other convictions across generations. The findings illustrate the complexity and contextuality of building and researching narratives of religious biographies. Thus, the results contribute to future examinations on how changes in societies and families affect the religious styles and convictions of older adults.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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.
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