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University of California-Santa Barbara · Religious Studies2.0% of University of California-Santa Barbara's Religious Studies course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Religious Studies departments, it is 4.6%.
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.
Religious Studies
Explores the intricate relationship between religion and patriarchy. We will investigate how various religious traditions and belief systems have historically influenced and perpetuated patriarchal structures and norms. Additionally, we…
Religious Studies
Examination of the indigenous, Iberian and North American sources and influences for distinctly Latino forms of religious thought, speculation, and spiritual construction. Topics include: Nahua wisdom traditions, colonial Nepantla, Chicano…
Religious Studies
Examines how law and religion relate in light of feminist critiques of both. Covers feminist legal theories, focusing on competing paradigms of religion and human rights which attempt to define gender and sexuality.
Religious Studies
A systematic examination of the history of anti-Semitism, beginning with the emergence of anti-Judaism in the world of late antiquity, its transformation into theological anti-Semitism in the middle ages, and the emergence of racial…
Religious Studies
History of Islam and politics in societies of Saudia Arabia, Iran, and Iraqsince 1500. Emphasis on topics such as Shi'i and Sunni movements, religion and the state, Iranian revolution, economic development, and modernity.
Religious Studies
An examination of a century of evolution of Iranian Shi'ism. Readings include: Early 20th century secular Iranian thinkers who formulated a new discourse on rationalist Shi'ism; the mid-twentieth-century lay writers and religious thinkers…
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.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California-Santa Barbara · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 2.0 | — | 354 | — |
| Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 4.6 | 4.1 – 5.1 | 7,282 | — |
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