Towards a Decolonial Liturgical Inculturation: An Indigenous Contribution to Intercultural Worship in The United Church of Canada
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Abstract
In 2006, The United Church of Canada declared it would transform itself into an intercultural church. One of the herald indicators of Christian interculturalism is liturgical practices. This dissertation explores how interculturalism is being lived out liturgically in one racialized population: Anishinaabe communities of faith. Using decolonial and Indigenous methodologies and employing the techniques of autoethnography, this dissertation braids together culture, mission, and liturgy to knit Anishinaabe liturgical life and history into their broader context. Using the scholarship of Anscar Chupungco on the relationship between culture and liturgy and an analysis of Anishinaabe worship services, three distinct groups were identified: Christo-traditional, Ceremonial, and Expansive Christian Interculturalism. Each of these groups has unique strategies for maintaining their theological understanding in the contemporary setting. Based on observational data and participation in varied worship services, this researcher identified six intercultural principles that could be applied to worship services. Furthermore, this dissertation identified how Anishinaabe worship is contextual, oral, relational, and spiritual. Finally, using the lens of Chupungco’s theories, this dissertation identifies several pastoral, liturgical, institutional, and scholarly intercultural lessons. This study has implications for other intercultural research on liturgical communities of faith.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".