Religious Studies
Broadly imagined and interdisciplinary, we compare Indigenous agency and autonomy in two communities--the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of New York State, and the Catholic community of West Belfast in Northern Ireland. The profound and…
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Hamilton College · Religious Studies
14.3% of Hamilton College's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.
0%25%
Where Religious Studies courses fall
0%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
50%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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
Religious Studies
Jews have been at the forefront of many modern and contemporary social justice movements, including the labor movement, the struggle for civil rights, environmental justice, gender equality, and LGBTQ equality. Why? What does Jewish…
Religious Studies
This course explores a variety of roles religion has played in American culture(s) and some of the ways that American culture has influenced Americans' religious practices. We will focus on three areas: identity (Americanism), politics…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Hamilton College Religious Studies has 4 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton College · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 14.3 | — | 28 | — |
| 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.