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Record W4408552092 · doi:10.1177/00323217251323404

Defining the Contours of Religion, State, and Modernity

2025· article· en· W4408552092 on OpenAlex
Brendan Szendrő

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenuePolitical Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion and Society Interactions
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsModernityState (computer science)SociologyAestheticsPolitical sciencePhilosophyLawComputer science

Abstract

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Who commits religious discrimination, and why? Recent findings at the country level show an inverse relationship between societal religiosity and social religious discrimination, but findings at the individual level show an increase in conservatism among religious practitioners. In this study, I seek to bridge the gap these levels with a novel framework of religious identity. I argue that the threat of secularism can cause religious communities to reinforce boundaries between themselves and other groups. This should manifest itself in hostile attitudes toward members of other religions. I test this theory using multilevel data. I find that as aggregate religiosity declines, individual religiosity increasingly predicts inter-religious hostility. At the same time, this effect is only the case concerning community- and practice-based aspects of religiosity, and not among beliefs in-and-of-themselves. This study bridges a gap between macro-level findings regarding religion and state and micro-level findings regarding the modernization hypothesis.

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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)0.000
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: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.645
Threshold uncertainty score0.914

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
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 head0.031
GPT teacher head0.403
Teacher spread0.373 · 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