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Tufts University · Religious Studies

4.5% of Tufts 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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Tufts University: 4.5% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

35%Left75–91

15%Center-left59–74

40%Center42–58

5%Center-right26–41

5%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

20 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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Framing Subject

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 0112 · Feminist Theologies83

Religious Studies

(Cross-listed w/ WGSS 0140) Survey of feminism's impact on the religious commitments of women and on traditional religious institutions, beliefs, and practices. Feminist scholarship in the study of scriptural texts and other historical…

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REL 0140 · (Mis-)Translating Vodun: Africana Religious Cultures and the Politics of Interpretation83

Religious Studies

(Cross-listed w/CST 118, AMER 118 and AFR 118) A historical and comparative examination of the history of cultural contact between Vodun religious cultures and the Western world, with specific attention to issues of translation and…

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REL 0066 · Contemporary Catholicism82

Religious Studies

A study of the landscape of contemporary Catholicism, emerging from reforms initiated by Vatican Council II (1962-65). Basic Catholic beliefs and practices; evolving models of church, ministry, vocation; new interpretations of ancient…

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Furthest-right subjects

REL 0123 · Religion and U.S. Foreign Affairs17

Religious Studies

History of religion's role in U.S. foreign affairs from the inception of the nation to the present. Key themes include American exceptionalism, manifest destiny and imperialism; missions and moral reform movements; humanitarian…

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REL 0055 · Japanese Religion33

Religious Studies

A study of Shinto and Japanese Buddhism and their roles in Japanese society and culture, with attention to recent developments, including nationalistic Shinto and the new religions of Japan.

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Tufts University · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.5	—	89	—
Religious Studies	bias_left_share	4.6	4.1 – 5.1	7,282	—

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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