Secularization as declining religious authority M Chaves Social forces 72 (3), 749-774, 1994 | 1472 | 1994 |
Congregations in america M Chaves Harvard University Press, 2004 | 1046 | 2004 |
What the polls don't show: A closer look at US church attendance CK Hadaway, PL Marler, M Chaves American Sociological Review, 741-752, 1993 | 785 | 1993 |
Religious pluralism and religious participation M Chaves, PS Gorski Annual review of sociology 27 (1), 261-281, 2001 | 666 | 2001 |
American religion: Contemporary trends M Chaves Princeton University Press, 2017 | 665 | 2017 |
Regulation, pluralism, and religious market structure: Explaining religion's vitality M Chaves, DE Cann Rationality and society 4 (3), 272-290, 1992 | 554 | 1992 |
Ordaining women: Culture and conflict in religious organizations M Chaves Harvard University Press, 1999 | 536 | 1999 |
Is the United States a counterexample to the secularization thesis? D Voas, M Chaves American Journal of Sociology 121 (5), 1517-1556, 2016 | 499 | 2016 |
Congregations and social services: What they do, how they do it, and with whom M Chaves, W Tsitsos Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 30 (4), 660-683, 2001 | 391 | 2001 |
The national congregations study: Background, methods, and selected results M Chaves, ME Konieczny, K Beyerlein, E Barman Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 458-476, 1999 | 357 | 1999 |
Religious congregations and welfare reform: Who will take advantage of “charitable choice”? M Chaves American Sociological Review 64 (6), 836-846, 1999 | 339 | 1999 |
SSSR presidential address rain dances in the dry season: Overcoming the religious congruence fallacy M Chaves Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 49 (1), 1-14, 2010 | 309 | 2010 |
Overreporting church attendance in America: Evidence that demands the same verdict CK Hadaway, PL Marler, M Chaves American Sociological Review 63 (1), 122-130, 1998 | 238 | 1998 |
The political activities of religious congregations in the United States K Beyerlein, M Chaves Journal for the scientific study of religion 42 (2), 229-246, 2003 | 230 | 2003 |
Comparing the community involvement of black and white congregations M Chaves, LM Higgins Journal for the scientific study of religion, 425-440, 1992 | 216 | 1992 |
Ordaining women: The diffusion of an organizational innovation M Chaves American Journal of Sociology 101 (4), 840-873, 1996 | 214 | 1996 |
Denominations as dual structures: An organizational analysis M Chaves Sociology of religion 54 (2), 147-169, 1993 | 198 | 1993 |
All creatures great and small: Megachurches in context M Chaves Sociology of Religion, 18-27, 2019 | 175 | 2019 |
Continuity and change in American congregations: Introducing the second wave of the National Congregations Study M Chaves, SL Anderson Sociology of Religion 69 (4), 415-440, 2008 | 164 | 2008 |
Intraorganizational power and internal secularization in Protestant denominations M Chaves American Journal of Sociology 99 (1), 1-48, 1993 | 163 | 1993 |