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Princeton University · Religious Studies

6.7% of Princeton 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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Princeton University: 6.7% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

13%Left75–91

75%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

13%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

8 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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Framing Subject

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

REL 511 · Special Topics in the Study of Religion: Critical Readings in Slavery and Religion75

Religious Studies

How have scholars in slavery studies interrogated the intersection of religion and slavery? Does the "slaving zones" model rule out the role of race in pre-modern enslavement? How did slaves negotiate their enslaved lives within the…

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REL 505 · Studies in Religion in America: Race and Religion in America73

Religious Studies

This course examines how the modern constructed categories of "race" and "religion" have interacted in American history and culture. We explore how religious beliefs and practices have shaped ideas about race and how American racialization…

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REL 239 · Sufism: The Mystical Tradition of Islam67

Religious Studies

In Western media and popular discourse, Sufism, or the mystical tradition in Islam, is often portrayed as the 'soft-side' of Islam and contrasted with the harsh 'legalism' of the Shari`a or Islamic law. In this class, we will try to…

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Furthest-right subjects

REL 543 · Islamic Law in South Asia22

Religious Studies

This seminar offers a broad-ranging survey of the history of Islamic law in South Asia, from the early sixteenth century to the present. It examines key developments relating to legal thought and practice under the Mughals, during colonial…

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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

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Princeton University · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	6.7	—	60	—
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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