<i>Searching for God in Britain and Beyond: Reading Letters to Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966-1982</i>. By David G. Reagles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The 1960s have, in recent years, become fertile ground for scholars exploring the timing and causes of religious decline. No longer wedded to analytic frameworks that assumed inextricable connections between secularization and modernization, historians have increasingly seen the decade as a period of crisis for Christianity in which religious belief, behaviour, and belonging all plummeted. David G. Reagles’s Searching for God in Britain and Beyond offers a distinctive approach to understanding the experience of those who sought to make sense of the religious tumult of the era. Where other scholars have examined the writings of intellectuals and conducted retrospective oral history interviews, Reagles seeks to recover the experience of ‘ordinary’ people by plumbing the rich trove of correspondence between a notable Christian writer and his highly engaged readers. This ‘fan mail’ (as Reagles terms it) offers a clear sense of immediacy, providing a way to witness people trying to understand a society that seemed abruptly unmoored from its traditional Christian foundations.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.078 | 0.027 |
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".