Bureau of DisruptionAll schools · Public
University of Virginia · Religious Studies2.1% of University of Virginia'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
This course examines the relationship between black religion and the criminal justice system in the U.S. from Jim Crow to the Black Lives Matter era. We will focus on the ideas, lived experiences, and activism of the incarcerated; religious…
Religious Studies
In the context of Christian thought, “liberation theology” refers to scholarship that links reflection on God, Jesus of Nazareth, human beings, creation, the Holy Spirit, and ethics with normative analyses of race, sex and gender, economic…
Religious Studies
In the academic study of Christian thought, ?liberation theology? encompasses scholarship that ties reflection on God, Jesus of Nazareth, human beings, creation, the Holy Spirit, and ethics to analyses of race and racism, sex and gender,…
Religious Studies
This course will examine American religious life and thought prior to the Civil War, including but not limited to Puritanism, the “Great Awakening,” slavery, the American Revolution, reform movements, and the Civil War.
Religious Studies
Amid a global resurgence of localism, populism, strong identity heritages, and nationalist political cultures, this graduate seminar explores the history, ideology, current form, and critiques of Christian Nationalism. It further raises…
Religious Studies
Surveys Islamic history from the “age of the great empires” (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal) to the colonial period and up to the present day, including Islam in America. Islamic life and thought will be examined from multiple angles – including…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Virginia · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 2.1 | — | 428 | — |
| Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 4.6 | 4.1 – 5.1 | 7,282 | — |
Ask a question about University of Virginia · Make a school card