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Mosques in the United States and Canada

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Ihsan Bagby

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion · 2024
Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEducation and Islamic Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyPolitical science

Abstract

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Abstract Mosques refer to the Muslim house of worship, signifying the gathering place for Muslims to fulfill their obligation of communal prayer. Mosques in the United States and Canada are distinct from mosques in Muslim-majority countries in two different ways. Mosques in the United States and Canada are congregations, which means that the mosque is run by a group of participants; in Muslim-majority countries, mosques are controlled by the state of wealthy patrons. Second, mosques in the United States and Canada are a place of worship and a center of various community activities; in Muslim-majority countries, the mosque is often simply a place of worship. The first era in the history of mosques in North America was from 1890 to 1964. Starting in the 1920s, mosques were established in the United States and Canada by Muslim immigrants. Owing to the relatively small number of Muslim immigrants, few mosques were founded before the 1960s. African Americans started becoming Muslim in the 1920s and started establishing mosques in the 1930s. The number of their mosques was also few. The second era is from 1965 to 2023. This period marks the tremendous increase in the number of Muslim immigrants and African American converts to Islam, and as a consequence, the number of mosques has risen significantly. In 2020, there were 2,769 mosques as compared with 498 in 1984. Mosques in 2020 were healthy: they were growing in number, participants, and activities. Mosques were also very much involved in American society and therefore did not evince a position of isolation and deep hostility to American society. In fact, studies show that mosques are a conduit for Muslims to become more civically engaged. However, the perceived disconnect between young adults and women constitutes a danger to the future of mosques in North America.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.870
Threshold uncertainty score0.630

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.377
Teacher spread0.332 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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