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.
Stained Glass Makes the Ceiling Visible: Organizational Opposition to Women in Congregational Leadership
Adams, Jimi. 2007. Gender & Society 21(1):80–105.
Reconciling the God and Gender Gaps: The Influence of Women in Church Politics
Audette, Andre P., Maryann Kwakwa, and Christopher L. Weaver. 2018. Politics, Groups, and Identities 6(4):682-701.
Job Status of Women Head Clergy: Findings from the National Congregations Study, 1998, 2006, and 2012
Hoegeman, Catherine. 2017. Religions 8(8):154-170.
Inequality within Congregations and Congregations’ Response to Inequality: Studies of Gender and Mental Health, Race and Mental Health, and Participation in the Sanctuary Movement
Holleman, Anna. 2021. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC.
When Religion Hurts: Structural Sexism and Health in Religious Congregations
Homan, Patricia and Amy Burdette. 2021. American Sociological Review 86(2):234–255.
Examining the Presence of Congregational Programs Focused on Violence Against Women
Houston-Kolnik, Jaclyn D. and Nathan R. Todd. 2016. American Journal of Community Psychology 57(3–4): 459–72.
Resources, Race, and Female-Headed Congregations in the United States
Konieczny, Mary Ellen and Mark Chaves. 2000. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 39(3):261–71.
Gendered Congregations, Gendered Service: The Impact of Clergy Gender on Congregational Social Service Participation
Stewart-Thomas, M. 2010. Gender, Work & Organization 17(4):406–32.
Gendered Organizations and Inequality Regimes: Gender, Homosexuality, and Inequality Within Religious Congregation
Whitehead, Andrew L. 2013. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 52(3):476-493.