Religious Studies
The course will examine the relationship between race and liberalism in the formation of the U.S. legal system, focusing in particular on the use of moral (and religious) doctrines both to reinforce and repudiate legal codes and…
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Harvard University · Religious Studies
6% of Harvard University'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
44%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
11%Right9–25
11%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
This course will survey constructive religious reflection that is informed by an ecological worldview and accountable to various forms of environmental activism. Readings will be drawn from a variety of religious and spiritual traditions,…
Religious Studies
This course offers an introduction to the complex relationship between Christianity and Indigenous spiritualities in the Pacific, including Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia. Texts in the course will focus on the significance of…
Furthest-right subjects
Religious Studies
Taking the Christian theology and ministry of the sacraments as our central case, this course will explore several central issues through a variety of resources: literary fiction, poetry, film, philosophy, theology, and liturgy. With a…
Religious Studies
Many Americans have imagined the United States as having a religious identity as a "city on a hill," a "redeemer nation," or "the new Israel." We will ask several questions in this course: How and why have Americans conceived of the nation…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard University · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 6 | — | 50 | — |
| 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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