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The New School · Religious Studies

12.2% of The New School's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.

0%25%
The New School: 12.2% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100
36%Left75–91
55%Center-left59–74
9%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
11 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

LREL 2101 · Queering & Decolonizing Theology88

Religious Studies

Christian theology is often depicted as a violent colonial force standing in particular opposition to LGBTQI lives. However, over the last 30 years people of faith, activists, and theorists alike have rediscovered what is queer within…

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LREL 2086 · Liberation Theologies: Black, Latin American, Queer85

Religious Studies

This course introduces Liberation Theologies emerging from Black, Latin American, and Queer Christian thinkers of the past sixty years, and explores how they continue to impact contemporary social justice struggles including (but not…

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LREL 2036 · Feminism and the Philosophy of Religion78

Religious Studies

Philosophical understandings of religion generally operate at a level of abstraction far removed from the oppressive and emancipatory realities of religion on the ground. Feminist theories and theologies have shown that such abstraction can…

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Furthest right

None. The New School Religious Studies has 11 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
The New School · Religious Studiesbias_left_share12.2—90—
Religious Studiesbias_left_share4.64.1 – 5.17,282—
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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