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Fordham University · Religious Studies

5.7% of Fordham 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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Fordham University: 5.7% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
45%Left75–91
26%Center-left59–74
19%Center42–58
9%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
47 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

THEO 4110 · Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Feminist Theologies: Discourses of Difference85

Religious Studies

Feminist theologies reflect critically on religious traditions from the perspective of persons who identify as women. Feminist theologies challenge traditional beliefs and practices that devalue women, and construct alternatives to them.…

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THEO 4444 · Anthropocene: Sciences, Fictions, and Ethical Futures84

Religious Studies

The “anthropocene” has been proposed as geochronological epoch in recognition of the destructive, disproportionate impacts that human activities have wrought upon earth systems. While the term has seeped into the popular lexicon, there is…

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THEO 3335 · Queer Interpretations of Sacred Texts and Theology83

Religious Studies

This course provides an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of queer interpretations of sacred texts and theology. The course introduces students to foundational concepts in queer and trans studies by focusing on queer Jewish,…

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Furthest-right subjects

THEO 6505 · Histories of Colonialism, Empire, Theology12

Religious Studies

This interdisciplinary course traces the interconnected histories of colonialism, European empire, and Christian theology in the 15th-20th centuries, with focus on the 18th-20th centures. Special attention will be given to questions of…

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THEO 4105 · Religion, Gender, and Sexuality30

Religious Studies

This course considers the intersections of religion, gender, and sexuality. In many parts of the world, including the United States, and in many religious traditions, cultural and religious identity and continuity hinge on gendered…

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THEO 7736 · Bioethics30

Religious Studies

This course attempts to put the Roman Catholic and broadly Christian bioethical traditions in conversation with their secular interlocutors -- toward the end of examining whether or not these traditions have a place in public bioethical…

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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
Fordham University · Religious Studiesbias_left_share5.7—246—
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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