Preface and Introduction - Who is My Neighbour? Interfaith Dialogue and Theological Education in the Global Village Vol. 4 No. 2
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Abstract
In 2022, the School of Religious Studies at McGill University most appreciated a grant made possible by the Lilly Foundation.As this grant was designated during the epidemic of Covid 19 in 2020-2021, we were granted an extension to use the funds for in-person symposiums and a preliminary study of student needs in our theological programs.Thus, in 2022, the School of Religious Studies (SRS) was able to welcome various scholars to discuss and exchange ideas on theological education under the banner name "Who is My Neighbour?"The thinking behind the two symposia was to allow academics and those who were part of the larger community to meet and discuss what might be possible or possible as we intentionally sought to reframe our theological curricula.We were able to open the symposia to online participants and found that a great many of our former students from around the world were able to be with us.From Montreal to Whitehorse, Vancouver to the Caribbean, Jerusalem to Mumbai.These voices were heard, and the distinctive nature of their concerns was discussed.We also found that our online capacity needed serious overhauling if such a venture were to happen again.We chose two particular foci for the symposia.The first symposium entitled "Who is my Neighbour?Interfaith Dialogue and Theological Formation" looked at the nature of theological education with reference to Christianity's dialogue with other religions.To this end, we chose Judaism and Islam.The second symposium entitled "Who is my Neighbour?Theological Education in the Global Village of the 21st Century" looked at how far our concerns with Globalization had helped our understanding of what shape theology would take in the coming years.Our objectives were, therefore, circumscribed by the audiences we sought to engage, which in this case included both the scholarly community and the communities of the various pastoral charges our students engage with after graduation.We also partnered with the Canadian Center for Ecumenism and sought further funding from the Lilly Foundation at the same time.Whereas we did not receive any further
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.089 | 0.026 |
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".