ABSTRACT
The balance is slightly in favour of attendance leading to better insights, but not significantly so. No frequency of parental attendance at church or intensity of support for religion was measured. Prayer activity has an even lower degree of relationship with insights into prayer. Some children had seen, before they took the religious thinking test, the film The Ten Commandments and also the television series Jesus of Nazareth, both of which depict the stories used in an investigation. Evidence is inadequate to comment upon the television series and its influence. A considerable variety of factors appears to lie behind wide divergencies in the spread of ability in religious thinking, despite similarity of age and intelligence. The generalisations are still valid as long as the people allow for many deviations and for the importance of other factors beyond what is often narrowly conceived as education in a formal and institutional sense.
