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Record W7124435239 · doi:10.1086/737809

On Commonality: The Ambivalence of Religious Belonging

2025· article· en· W7124435239 on OpenAlex
Anne Murphy

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Bibliographic record

VenueHistory of Religions · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAnthropological Studies and Insights
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAmbivalenceContext (archaeology)Articulation (sociology)Value (mathematics)Social categoryLate modernityVariation (astronomy)

Abstract

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Religion is fundamentally about belonging. This is how it is framed within the two dimensions, personal/individual and social, that dominate in definitions of religion: an experience of subjective belonging/identity at the individual level, and placement within particular social, institutional, and historical formations designated by the term “tradition.” Yet, just as belonging is experienced differentially across a city, by residents of different kinds and in different social, physical, and cultural locations, so too may it be with religion, where belonging may not be in fact seamless, undifferentiated, and singular across those who comprise a religious social body. We can see this as a kind of ambivalence, a constitutive and productive internal tension. This is not, however, something generally accounted for in our definitions of religions. What are the implications of seeing this kind of ambivalence in belonging as fundamental to the “religious,” as a phenomenon? If belonging itself can be multiform and variable in degree, cannot multiple forms of belonging coexist, without undermining the belonging that seems to define the “religious”? And, if we allow for differential experiences/degrees of belonging, what does that mean for our understanding of religious differences between religions, as well as within them? How do we address the articulation of commonality across religions—which troubles our understanding of religious belonging by not adhering to religious boundaries—alongside difference? This essay explores these issues in the context of early modern South Asian religions, with attention to attendant placements in urban and semi-urban landscapes that inform their articulation, to argue that the effort to name and value commonality is both intellectually and ethically imperative in our current moment.

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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)0.000
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.919
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
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 head0.030
GPT teacher head0.309
Teacher spread0.280 · 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