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      "excerpt": "Machine hierology is an analytical term for the comparative and historical study of religious and religion-adjacent phenomena in which artificial intelligence or other computational systems materially participate in generation, mediation, i",
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      "excerpt": "The concept exists because AI-related religious material is not one phenomenon. Some records concern human-founded institutions that sacralize future AI; some concern religious interaction through bots or avatars; some concern synthetic scr",
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      "excerpt": "Area Handling in Machine hierology Machine-mediated religion Included where computational systems materially shape religious interaction, practice, preservation, or interpretation. Machine-originated religion claims Included cautiously as p",
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      "excerpt": "Provenance: Who or what initiated the material, and what evidence survives? Mediation: Did the machine merely transmit a human claim, or did it materially shape the religious form? Authority: Was machine output treated as advice, doctrine, ",
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      "excerpt": "These examples serve different evidentiary roles. Way of the Future is not machine-originated. AI Jesus is not a sacrament or a machine-founded religion. Terasem and Turing Church are not proofs of AI governance. Crustafarianism is not trea",
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