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Rice University · Religious Studies

2.2% of Rice 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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Rice University: 2.2% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

16%Far left92–100
32%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
5%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
19 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

RELI 393 · MUTANTS AND MYSTICS: RACE, SEXUALITY, AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES92

Religious Studies

This is a course about the deep historical and conceptual connections between the histories of science fiction, the paranormal, and social transformation around race, gender, sexuality, and the human. We will see that such events tend to…

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RELI 538 · THE BIBLE IN AFRICA92

Religious Studies

The Bible in Africa is a reading/lecture course which explores the reception history of the Bible in Africa, African interpretations of the Bible, and the broader role the Bible has played in African culture, education, economic, social and…

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RELI 589 · MUTANTS AND MYSTICS: RACE, SEXUALITY, AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES92

Religious Studies

This is a course about the deep historical and conceptual connections between the histories of science fiction, the paranormal, and social transformation around race, gender, sexuality, and the human. We will see that such events tend to…

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Furthest-right subjects

RELI 317 · GOD AND COUNTRY: CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM IN CONTEMPORARY USA14

Religious Studies

Set against the backdrop of developments such as the “Cold War” and various struggles for justice and equality, this course explores ways in which certain Christians have worked to reimagine the United States along theological lines and in…

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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
Rice University · Religious Studiesbias_left_share2.2—183—
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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