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Record W4403880006 · doi:10.29173/rssj18

Persuaded by the Qur’an: Converting to Islam in Canada

2024· article· en· W4403880006 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Nuray Catic

Bibliographic record

VenueReligious and Socio-Political Studies Journal · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion, Society, and Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIslamPolitical scienceHistoryArchaeology

Abstract

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Canadian Muslim converts/reverts, as the fastest growing convert population in Canada, are shaping the religious landscape and challenging assumptions about Canadian and Canadian Muslim identity. Conversion is a complex phenomenon that affects individuals in all aspects of life. Muslim converts change their beliefs, attitudes, habits, clothing, behaviours, and even their names in some cases – all aspects which Islam, as a comprehensive way of life (deen) touches. Changing their religion not only involves switching personal beliefs and practices, but it also means altering the community they grow in/belong to. Dealing with many transformations in their inner and outer worlds is challenging. Thus, it requires facilitating mechanisms in the Muslim community to reduce the burden on converts by providing channels to learn their new religion of Islam, get them connected with the new community, and walk with them through their journey. This article aids with understanding motivations of Canadian converts coming to Islam, to capture their everyday life experiences, to explore where they struggle most in their conversion, and to understand how Muslim organizations can contribute to combatting those challenges and helping them integrate in the community.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.450
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.028
GPT teacher head0.336
Teacher spread0.308 · 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.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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