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Brown University · Religious Studies

8.4% of Brown University's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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Brown University: 8.4% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
13%Left75–91
80%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
15 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

RELS 1600C · Angels and Monsters: Queer and Trans Religion76

Religious Studies

Gender and sexual diversity is often described in religious terms: before “gay” became shorthand for homosexuality, German activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs proposed “Uranian” in the 1860s, based off Greek mythology; in 2023, a Florida state…

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RELS 0817 · Race, Religion, and the Secular75

Religious Studies

The history of race is intertwined with religion. From the Spanish Inquisition to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, to the European construction of a secular “humanism” in the Enlightenment, the relationship between Christianity and Whiteness…

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RELS 2500A · Ethnography of Religion in South Asia72

Religious Studies

How have self, society, art, and embodiment in South Asia been represented in ethnographic writing? Starting with accounts of observers such as Xuanzang (Chinese pilgrim, 7th century), Ibn Battuta (Persian traveler, 14th century), and…

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Furthest right

None. Brown University Religious Studies has 15 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
Brown University · Religious Studiesbias_left_share8.4—179—
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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