Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This chapter discusses possible responses of the global North to the rise of a new global Christianity emanating from the Southern churches, where the future of Christianity may well lie. Although no one expects a literal Southern invasion of Europe or North America, and traditional Christianity is weakening in large sections of the North, it is indeed being reinforced and reinvigorated by the Southern churches by means of immigration and evangelization. Various aspects of this scenario are discussed, including: the fear of a “Black” planet, where Whites have a conspicuous global minority; Catholic politics and the fact that the Catholic Church has long had to deal with trends that other religious communities are only now beginning to face since the majority of the world’s Catholics have been in the South for a generation; support from the global South to Northern religious conservatives on gender, sexual, and moral issues, to which the African and Asian churches have highly conservative attitudes; and the possibility of the evangelization of the North by Southern Christians, both through missionary work and immigration. Numerous European examples of the latter are given, and there are also examples in Canada, although the situation in the United States is very different owing to the fact that the country has never experienced the same kind of secularization as Europe and American Christianity is alive and well.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.511 | 0.281 |
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".