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Amherst College · Religious Studies8.2% of Amherst College'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
Play is an essential component of human life. Yet, while the word play evokes leisure and frivolity, it can be serious work. Cultural values, spiritual truths, and social politics arise from play, particularly when they are codified in…
Religious Studies
(Offered as REL 135, AMST 231, HIST 135 [US/TR/TS] and LLAS 135) One historian aptly described the U.S. West as "one of the greatest meeting places on the planet." The region is a site of cultural complexity where New Mexican Penitentes…
Religious Studies
The body provides our first contact with the world and each other. It is also a tool of social formation and site of competition: meanings and ideologies are mapped onto the body through narrative, image, and practice. How does the…
None. Amherst College Religious Studies has 5 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst College · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 8.2 | — | 49 | — |
| Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 4.6 | 4.1 – 5.1 | 7,282 | — |