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Record W4409666522 · doi:10.1080/13537903.2025.2470536

A progressive transformation: rising cultural progressivism across the religious spectrum in Canada

2025· article· en· W4409666522 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Contemporary Religion · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion and Society Interactions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProgressivismTransformation (genetics)Spectrum (functional analysis)SociologyPolitical scienceHistoryAnthropologyReligious studiesPhilosophyLawPhysicsPolitics

Abstract

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This article examines the transformation of religion across generations in contemporary Canadian society. Moving away from scholarly approaches which emphasize the internal consistency of religious transmission in families, this article instead analyzes religious and non-religious Canadians in tandem to decipher overarching patterns of religious and cultural change. Primarily employing qualitative data from in-depth interviews with 16 intergenerational Canadian families, the first section of this article traces the rise of pluralism in an increasingly diverse Canadian context. The second section explores the spread of progressivism (the belief in social and cultural reform over cultural conservatism) among religious and non-religious family members in the sample. The third section reflects on interviewees’ (religious and non-religious) frequent criticism of conservative Christians. I conclude that, because this progressive transformation is occurring among both religious and non-religious interviewees, it suggests a correlation with a broader cultural transformation in Canada.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
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: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.168
Threshold uncertainty score0.736

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.342
Teacher spread0.324 · 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