Current Work
Dissertation in Progress:
My dissertation uses data from the National Congregations Study and other sources to examine determinants of conflict in American religious congregations. I am currently working to identify patterns in the general occurrence of conflict, but the dissertation also examines patterns in persistent conflict and topic-specific conflict.
Selected Papers and Publications:
Chaves, Mark and Shawna L. Anderson. "Continuity and Change in American Religion, 1972-2006." Forthcoming in Social Trends in the United States, 1972-2006: Evidence from the General Social Survey, ed. by Peter V. Marsden. Princeton University Press.
Chaves, Mark and Shawna L. Anderson. "Continuity and Change in American Congregations: Introducing the Second Wave of the National Congregations Study." Forthcoming in Sociology of Religion.
Anderson, Shawna L., Jessica Hamar Martinez, Catherine Hoegeman, Gary Adler, and Mark Chaves. 2008. "Dearly Departed: How Often Do Congregations Close?" Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47:321-328.
Anderson, Shawna L. 2008. "Conflict Over Homosexuality in Religious Congregations." Paper presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Boston.
Anderson, Shawna L. and Mark Chaves. 2007. "Conflict in Religious Congregations." Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion annual meeting, Tampa.
