Church doctrine, not attendance frequency, shapes member prejudice

Evidence

Finally, I suspect that if parenting, schooling, and the media can affect prejudice, so can churches, for good or evil. How active you are in your church may have little to do with how prejudiced you are, compared to what your church teaches, directly and indirectly, about authoritarianism and ethnocentrism. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1992

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to vault claims about Christian nationalism and Whitehead & Perry; Altemeyer extends the causal channel from participation toward doctrinal content.