The Numinous Cult(ur)e: Reconciling Québec’s religious heritage for a post-secular age.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The aim of this research is to investigate the motivations and strategies employed by the Québec state and its national institutions to preserve and promote its religious history, particularly in the present context of vociferous secular discourse.Building upon past works on the sociology of secularity and modernization, in addition to concepts of patrimonialization, museology, curation, and cultural studies, this paper advances thinking on Québec's strategy of reconciling its dominant paradigm of religious rupture -one that allows for disavowal of and nostalgia for its religious past.Of specific interest to this analysis, is on the one hand the Franco-Québécois audience for whom this religious narrative is being crafted, namely, one for whom living memory of Québec's clericalism is receding into the historical horizon.On the other hand some attention is also paid to Québécois who do not share this religious past, and are as such, marked as outsiders by its promotion as a source of distinction and identity.To apply the thesis mentioned above to the actual process of national identity building, le Musée de l'Amérique francophone is discursively and spatially analyzed.This research is situated within the present theoretical context of post-secularism to the explore the notion that the grandchildren of the Quiet Revolution are negotiating a prevailing sense of loss of distinction, both through the process of capitalist consumerism and increasing ethnic and religious diversification.Ultimately, this thesis argues that cultural institutions are in the midst of co-opting the emotional and symbolic repertoire of Québec's religious heritage in an effort to renovate an important distinguishing characteristic of its past.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".