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Wesleyan University · Religious Studies13.9% of Wesleyan University'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
Black people have been interpreted as both hyper-religious and hereditary, heretical heathens through a Western/Modern lens. Singularly, the construction of the Black woman in modern discourse has marked the formation of understanding of…
Religious Studies
From Azusa Street to Zambia, Pentecostalism has exploded as a late modern religious movement among Black-descended people, transnationally and diasporically. This course will seek to interpret this globalization of what is often understood…
Religious Studies
Although this course is not devoted specifically to the subject of "XR"--the decentralized environmental activist organization and global campaign of civil disobedience--it borrows the movement's self-designation as a point of departure for…
Religious Studies
No background is required for this seminar. The so-called Islamic State once grabbed headlines daily with criminal acts primarily committed against other Muslims, but also against non-Muslims. Its violence overshadowed even al-Qaeda and the…
Religious Studies
"More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth." Is this true? If not, why do so many people believe it so? Even if it is not true, a great many people have died for causes propelled by religious ideologies and…
Religious Studies
"More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on Earth." Is this true? If not, why do so many people believe it? Even if it is not true, a great many people have died for causes propelled by religious ideologies and…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wesleyan University · Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 13.9 | — | 115 | — |
| Religious Studies | bias_left_share | 4.6 | 4.1 – 5.1 | 7,282 | — |
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