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Mark Chaves
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 73
Citations - 6279
Mark Chaves is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Religious organization & Social work. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 71 publications receiving 5955 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Chaves include University of Arizona & Loyola University Chicago.
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Secularization as Declining Religious Authority
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose de souligner trois points : l'autorite religieuse mise en rapport avec les recents developpements en theorie sociale, l'etat actuel de la litterature relatant la secularisation, and une approche Weberienne de l'analyse sociologique de la religion.
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What the polls don't show: A closer look at U.S. church attendance.
TL;DR: Aux Etats-Unis, les caracterisations de la vie religieuse font reference aux donnees de sondage sur la frequentation de l'eglise.
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Congregations in America
TL;DR: More than 300,000 churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples in the United States have been surveyed by the National Congregations Study (NCS) as mentioned in this paper.
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Religious Pluralism and Religious Participation
Mark Chaves,Philip S. Gorski +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that the empirical evidence does not support the claim that religious pluralism is positively associated with religious participation in any general sense, and identified potentially productive directions for future research on religious plurality, church-state relations, and religious competition.
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Regulation, Pluralism, and Religious Market Structure Explaining Religion's Vitality
Mark Chaves,David E. Cann +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the analysis of religious market structure by measuring directly the regulation of religious markets in 18 Western democracies and find that the relationship between subsidized religion and religious participation holds in both Protestant and Catholic countries and its explanatory power is far superior to that of religious pluralism alone.