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Vanderbilt University · Religious Studies

2.6% of Vanderbilt 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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Vanderbilt University: 2.6% Religious Studies at all 100 schools: 4.6% each other school in the comparison

Where Religious Studies courses fall

0%Far left92–100

42%Left75–91

25%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

17%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

17%Far right0–8

12 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

RLST2315 · Introduction to Christian Ideas78

Religious Studies

Ancient, modern and contemporary debates in theology. Ideas of God, Jesus, Spirit, salvation, evil, and liberation. Key questions of science, belief, theism, race, gender, and colonial impact of Christian ideas. St. Paul, Augustine, Calvin,…

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RLST2921 · Ethics and Ecology76

Religious Studies

Relationships among humans, nature, and the sacred. The role of religious and spiritual traditions in shaping attitudes and behaviors regarding nonhuman nature. Topics include eco-centered ethics, multi-species justice, climate ethics, and…

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RLST2318 · Intersex in Christian Traditions: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology75

Religious Studies

Lived experiences of intersex people; issues encountered due to binary understanding of sex/gender in science, law, culture, and Christian theology and liturgy. Sex/gender as a spectrum. Offered on a graded basis only. [3] (HCA)

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Furthest-right subjects

RLST3229 · The Holocaust: Its Meanings and Implications0

Religious Studies

Interdisciplinary study of the systematic destruction of European Jewish communities during WWII. Historical, social, political, cultural developments that led to it. Psychological and sociological dimensions of its aftermath. Philosophical…

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RLST3940 · The Nature of Evil0

Religious Studies

Human evil as expressed in the Shoah, religious fundamentalism, and ethnic cleansing. Theological, philosophical, biological, and literary texts. Evil transformed by scientific inquiry since 1600. [3] (HCA)

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RLST1200 · Introduction to Judaism30

Religious Studies

Comprehensive historical overview of Judaism as a religion and a culture. The main ideas and institutions of Judaism, the centrality of the Hebrew Bible and the meaning of interpretation, thinkers, and movements in Jewish civilization, from…

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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
Vanderbilt University · Religious Studies	bias_left_share	2.6	—	78	—
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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