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Yale University · Religious Studies

10.3% of Yale 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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Yale University: 10.3% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
17%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
17%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 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

RLST 209 · Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Southeast Asia75

Religious Studies

Religion, ethnicity, and nationalism are three of the most potent forces that have shaped contemporary Southeast Asia. This course is intended to provide context and a foundation for understanding the theory of nationalism and religious…

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RLST 227 · Erotic Faith in Christian Thought75

Religious Studies

Focusing on figures such as the Desert Fathers & Mothers, Augustine, and Julian of Norwich, as well as movements such as Pietism, Queer Theology, and Womanist theology, this course examines the role of desire in Christian thought. We…

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RLST 628 · Religion and Family67

Religious Studies

Religion and family are also often depicted as separate forms of social organization. This comparative course explores the ways in which religious and familial concepts, institutions, and relationships intersect to shape the lived…

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Furthest-right subjects

RLST 375 · Hindu Nationalism17

Religious Studies

This course analyzes the development of Hindu nationalism from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Students interrogate the emergence of Hinduism as a religion, before exploring the reform and revivalist movements in the…

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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
Yale University · Religious Studiesbias_left_share10.3—39—
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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