Religious Studies
This course surveys the history of Western anxiety about Islam from its origins to the present, exploring the theological, political, and cultural forces behind it. It examines how Islamophobia has been institutionalized through…
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Rutgers University-New Brunswick · Religious Studies
0.8% of Rutgers University-New Brunswick'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
0%Left75–91
60%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
20%Center-right26–41
20%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
Explores the polycultural presence of Islam in the Americas from the early colonial period to the present, issues of gender and sexuality, U.S. foreign policy and its consequences, pre- and post-9/11 racializing practices, and the…
Religious Studies
Overview of representations of India on the Western religious landscape stemming from the earliest interactions between West and East, subsequent cultural and intellectual exchanges, eventual colonization of the subcontinent, and the…
Furthest-right subjects
Religious Studies
Surveys a range of myths and subtypes, including myths about place and location; creation and recreation (apocalypses); political-religious conquest and domination; common ancestors and ethno-religious identity; and diverse forms of…
Religious Studies
Abortion is one of the most socially contested issue of our time. Using a historical and sociological lens, this course seeks to understand the issues in more contextual and less polemic manner. This course will explore the history of…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers University-New Brunswick · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 0.8 | — | 120 | — |
| 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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