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Amherst College · Religious Studies

8.2% of Amherst College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

0%25%
Amherst College: 8.2% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
50%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
4 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

RELI 135 · Race and Religion in the U.S. West/Mexico Borderlands62

Religious Studies

(Offered as REL 135, AMST 231, HIST 135 [US/TR/TS] and LLAS 135) One historian aptly described the U.S. West as "one of the greatest meeting places on the planet." The region is a site of cultural complexity where New Mexican Penitentes…

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RELI 275 · The Body in Ancient Christianity60

Religious Studies

The body provides our first contact with the world and each other. It is also a tool of social formation and site of competition: meanings and ideologies are mapped onto the body through narrative, image, and practice. How does the…

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RELI 179 · Ritual, Materiality, and Lived Religion in Ancient Christianity58

Religious Studies

This course introduces students to the academic study of religion by exploring the practices and material culture of Christianity during its first six centuries. We will consider how the lived experience of Christianity shaped religious…

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Furthest right

None. Amherst College Religious Studies has 4 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Amherst College · Religious Studiesbias_left_share8.2—49—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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