All Publications
Publications from the National Congregations Study range from general overviews to writings about specific topics. They are aimed at academic, clergy, and lay audiences. If copyright restrictions prevent your download of an article for which Mark Chaves is one of the authors, please contact us with your request and we will send a copy to you. Also, if you have used NCS data to write something, or if you know of something that has been written using NCS data, please let us know so we can add it to the list of study writings.
Conflict in American Protestant Congregations
Anderson, Shawna L. 2010. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
The Impact of Congregational Characteristics on Conflict-Related Exit
Chou, Hui-Tzu Grace. 2008. Sociology of Religion 69(1):93–108.
Decline and Conflict: Causes and Consequences of Leadership Transitions in Religious Congregations
Dollhopf, Erica J., and Christopher P. Scheitle. 2013. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52(4):675–97.
Size, Conflict, and Opportunities for Interaction: Congregational Effects on Members' Anticipated Support and Negative Interaction
Ellison, Christopher, Neal Krause, Bryan Shepherd and Mark Chaves. 2009. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 48(1):1–15.
Networks and Religion: Ties that Bind, Loose, Build Up, and Tear Down
Everton, Sean F. 2018. New York: Cambridge University Press.