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Davidson College · Religious Studies

0% of Davidson College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

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

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
22%Left75–91
44%Center-left59–74
11%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
22%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
9 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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.

Furthest-left subjects

REL 265 · US Religions, US Revolutions83

Religious Studies

Instructor Wills This course examines several episodes in the American context during which religious affiliation shaped revolutionary social movements. Topics may include the Revolutionary war, anti-slavery agitation and abolitionism,…

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REL 252 · Social Christianity in America75

Religious Studies

Instructor Ottati A study of the theological ethics that contributed to the Social Gospel, Christian Realism, and the Civil Rights Movement in America. Resources include works by Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Martin Luther…

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REL 286 · Was Gandhi Good?72

Religious Studies

Instructor Patel Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), more popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is a central figure in colonial and postcolonial South Asian history. His thought and actions, especially his non-violent political philosophy,…

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Furthest-right subjects

REL 432 · In God's Country17

Religious Studies

Instructor Zamir Our seminar will probe the relationship between authority of God and human beings in Islamic sociopolitical life. What does it mean to dwell in God's Islamic country? What does polity, law and economy look like in God's…

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REL 369 · Religion and Politics25

Religious Studies

Instructor Snyder In this discussion-based course, we will examine sites in contemporary culture where politics and religion interact. How do political and religious convictions inform each other? How shall we understand the complex synergy…

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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
Davidson College · Religious Studiesbias_left_share0—84—
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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