About the Director
Mark Chaves
Position:
Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity
at Duke University
Degrees:
A.B., Dartmouth College
M.Div., Harvard Divinity School
A.M., Harvard University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Address:
Department of Sociology
Duke University
Box 90088
Durham, NC 27708-0088
Phone:
919-660-5783
Professor Chaves specializes in the sociology of religion and is professor of sociology, religion, and divinity at Duke University. Among other projects, he directs the National Congregations Study (NCS), a wide-ranging survey of a nationally representative sample of religious congregations. Results from the 1998 NCS have informed debates about the Bush Administration's faith-based initiative, and they have helped us to better understand many aspects of congregational life in the United States.
Selected Publications:
- Chaves, Mark, Congregations in America (2004), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Chaves, Mark, Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations (1997), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
- Chaves, Mark, and Sharon Miller (eds.), Financing American Religion (1999), Walnut Creek, California: Alta Mira Press (Sage Publications).
- Chaves, Mark, and Shawna Anderson, "Continuity and Change in American Congregations: Introducing the Second Wave of the National Congregations Study." Sociology of Religion, vol. 69 (Winter 2008), 415-440.
- Anderson, Shawna L., Jessica Hamar Martinez, Catherine Hoegeman, Gary Adler, and Mark Chaves, "Dearly Departed: How Often Do Congregations Close?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 47, no. 2 (June 2008), pp. 321-328.
- Presser, Stanley, and Mark Chaves, "Is Religious Service Attendance Declining?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 46 (2007), pp. 417-423.
- Chaves, Mark, "All Creatures Great and Small: Megachurches in Context" Review of Religious Research, vol. 47 (2006), pp. 329-346.
