Leslie J. Francis, Ph.D., D.Litt., Sc.D., D.D. is Professor of Religions and Education at the University of Warwick. He has authored and edited works on religious education, the psychology of religion and empirical theology.

Over the past fifty years the individual differences tradition in psychology has offered rich insights into religious education, as offered within schools, religious communities and households, during childhood, adolescence and adulthood. Leslie J. Francis offers an overview and assessment of this contribution.