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Record W4416456972 · doi:10.1080/15570274.2025.2571309

A Canadian Covenant? Covenantal Pluralism and the Fate of a Dominion

2025· article· en· W4416456972 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Robert Joustra

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Review of Faith & International Affairs · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDominionPluralism (philosophy)PropositionGovernment (linguistics)

Abstract

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Canada seems like an ideal case study of covenantal pluralism. However, on closer inspection of the three basic components of covenantal pluralism—namely, freedom of religion or belief, religious literacy, and virtues and institutions of constructive engagement—the Canadian example is not as rosy as may initially appear, and its trajectory is especially concerning. The picture we take away is one of a country that is increasingly divided on basic questions of not only freedom of religion, but even whether religion is good or bad, and a related collapse of religious literacy. We see a country which has depended on its prudent, orderly management of diversity for its economic and cultural vitality, but which has badly under-invested in the covenantal infrastructure needed to maintain it. And now, just when economically and demographically, it is most badly needed, it is at the point of—or is perhaps already—breaking.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.139
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.005
Science and technology studies0.0280.028
Scholarly communication0.0140.005
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.015
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.311 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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