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Colgate University · Religious Studies9.3% of Colgate University's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Religious Studies
Selected historical perspectives on the connections among religion, violence, and power as a context for contemporary studies of the role of religion in society. Most of the course focuses on liberation theologies, with their emphasis on…
Religious Studies
What is "black" about black religion? Students examine "blackness" as both a racial/cultural descriptor as well as a theoretical term that describes expansive ways of being in the world. Students consider how theories of blackness inform a…
Religious Studies
An introduction to the complex, expansive religious landscape of African American life from the transatlantic slave trade to the contemporary moment. Through an examination of specific traditions, including conjure and other folk religious…
Religious Studies
In the desert landscape of 7th century Arabia, a middle-aged Arab tribesman and caravan trader named Muhammad began to hear the word of God and declared himself a prophet. Within decades, Muhammad's message sparked a religious and social…
Religious Studies
Over the past two centuries, Islam - like many other religions - has experienced a series of radical challenges and transformations. This course untangles the nature of these changes by focusing on the two most significant streams of modern…
Religious Studies
Provides an introduction to the Chinese worldview, examining Chinese philosophical and religious thought from the Warring States period (453-221 BCE), Neo-Confucian thought from the Song Dynasty (960-1279), and later periods. Classical…
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.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colgate University · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 9.3 | — | 54 | — |
| Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 4.6 | 4.1 – 5.1 | 7,282 | — |
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