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.
Challenges for the 21st Century
Chaves, Mark. 2001. The Journal of the Interim Ministry Network, 2001 Annual Review December:27–39.
Religious Congregations
Chaves, Mark. 2002. Pp. 275–98 in The State of America’s Nonprofit Sector, edited by Lester Salamon. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Congregations’ Significance to American Civic Life
Chaves, Mark. 2007. Pp. 31–43 in Civil Society, Civic Engagement and Catholicism in the United States, edited by Antonius Liedhegener and Werner Kremp. Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
What Do Congregations Do? The Significance of Christian Congregations to American Civic Life
Chaves, Mark. 2007. Word & World 27(3):295–304.
Congregational Snapshot: Four Church Trends
Chaves, Mark. 2009. Christian Century, April 7, pp. 28–31.
Congregations’ Significance to American Civic Life
Chaves, Mark. 2009. Pp. 69–81 in The Civic Life of American Religion, edited by Paul Lichterman and C. Brady Potts. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Twenty-Seven Short Research Reports About Religion in the United States
Chaves, Mark. 2009–10. Faith and Leadership, an online magazine produced by Duke Divinity School.
Religious Congregations
Chaves, Mark. 2012. Pp. 362 – 93 in The State of Nonprofit America, 2nd Edition, edited by Lester M. Salamon. DC: Brookings Institute Press.
American Religion: Contemporary Trends, 2nd edition
Chaves, Mark. 2017. Princeton University Press.
Continuity and Change in American Congregations: Introducing the Second Wave of the National Congregations Study
Chaves, Mark and Shawna L. Anderson. 2008. Sociology of Religion 69(4):415–40.
Continuity and Change in American Religion, 1972–2008
Chaves, Mark and Shawna L. Anderson. 2012. Pp. 212–39 in Social Trends in American Life: Findings from the General Social Survey since 1972, edited by Peter V. Marsden. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Changing American Congregations: Findings from the Third Wave of the National Congregations Study
Chaves, Mark and Shawna L. Anderson. 2014. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53(4):676– 86.
American Congregations at the Beginning of the 21st Century: A Report from the National Congregations Study
Chaves, Mark, Shawna L. Anderson and Jason Byassee. 2009. Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Religious Congregations in 21st Century America: A Report from the National Congregations Study
Chaves, Mark and Alison J. Eagle. 2015. Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC.
The National Congregations Study: Background, Methods, and Selected Results
Chaves, Mark, Mary Ellen Konieczny, Kraig Beyerlein and Emily Barman. 1999. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 38(4):458–76.
Congregations in 21st Century America
Chaves, Mark, Joseph Roso, Anna Holleman, and Mary Hawkins. 2021. Durham, NC: Duke University, Department of Sociology.
Springfield Area Congregations Study: Profile and Community Engagement
Hoegeman, Catherine, Dan Prater, Christina Ryder, and Matthew Gallion. 2016. Drury University Center for Nonprofit Leadership and Missouri State University, Springfield, MO.
Religion in America
Pearce, Lisa D. and Claire Chipman Gilliland. 2020. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
Beyond the Congregation: The World of Christian Nonprofits
Scheitle, Christopher P. 2010. Oxford University Press.