A peer-reviewed report of the third wave (2012) of the National Congregations Study, the ongoing nationally representative survey of American religious congregations that Mark Chaves has directed from Duke University since the study's first wave in 1998, with later waves in 2006 to 2007 and 2018 to 2019. The paper and the study behind it document a rising share of nondenominational congregations among the study's national sample, among other changes in American congregational life.
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Peer reviewed sociology of religion: the National Congregations Study is a Duke University survey program led by Mark Chaves, published in refereed journals and reporting its own methodology and waves. NotesPublished in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, volume 53, issue 4. Cite for the documented growth of nondenominational congregations in the United States and for the National Congregations Study's wider methodology; the study's cumulative dataset spanning 1998 through 2018 to 2019 is archived through the Association of Religion Data Archives and ICPSR.
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AuthorMark Chaves and Shawna L. Anderson
PublisherJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jssr.12151
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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This source names Duke University directly: "that Mark Chaves has directed from Duke University since the study's first wave in 1998, with later waves in 2006 to 2007 and 2018 to 2019."
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