id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt f1881j94m8j David A. Hartman Toward an Understanding of How Religion Affects the Timing of Sexual Debuts: A Test of Smith's Framework 2010 .txt text/plain 166 6 35 The direct effects of religious participation on the age at sexual debut become statistically insignificant in the presence of Smith's (2003) factors, supporting the idea that considering only religion's direct effects is a myopic view of how religion work. Smith (2003) proposes that religious participation creates its impact primarily through nine intervening religious mechanisms or factors. cache/f1881j94m8j.txt txt/f1881j94m8j.txt