Navigating evangelical affect: convictions, promises, and dissonance in adolescent adherence to purity teachings
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper theorizes how evangelicalism utilizes affect to convict adolescents to adhere to evangelical purity teachings, despite a proliferation of scholarship and lived experiences demonstrating disaffected outcomes. It contends that evangelicalism entices youth with captivating affect, promising a blissful marriage, meaningful participation in a divinely good movement, and assured salvation in exchange for obedience. Conversely, disobedience carries the explicit consequences of unhappiness, sin, and the threat of hell. Sara Ahmed's insights on collective emotions and the promise of happiness reveal that evangelicalism attaches positive affect to the social norms it aims to perpetuate, rather than those genuinely conducive to happiness. In the process of internalizing affective evangelical rhetoric claiming that evangelicalism is inherently good, adolescents learn not to see, or experiencing a lack of capacity to see, the negative outcomes that is inherent to evangelical beliefs and its projects.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".