Chaves, Mark (Personal Name)

Ordaining women, 1997: CIP t.p. (Mark Chaves)

National Congregations Study, 1998 and 2006, 2009: title page (Mark A. Chaves, Duke University)

Duke Divinity School, via WWW, September 27, 2012 (Mark Chaves; Mark Alan Chaves; Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity; Department of Sociology, Duke University; A.B., Philosophy, Dartmouth College, 1982; M.Div., Harvard Divinity School, 1985; A.M., Sociology, Harvard University, 1988; Ph. D., Sociology, Harvard University, 1991; Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Loyola University of Chicago, 1990-1992; Assistant to Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, 1992-1996; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, 1998-2001; Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Arizona, 2001-2007; Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity, Duke University, 2007-; Professor Chaves specializes in the sociology of religion; most of his research is on the social organization of religion in the United States; among other projects, he directs the National Congregations Study (NCS), a wide-ranging survey, conducted in 1998 and again in 2006-07, of a nationally representative sample of religious congregations; Professor Chaves is the author of Congregations in America (Harvard, 2004), Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations (Harvard 1997), and many articles; his latest book, Continuity and Change in American Religion, 1972-2008, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press; he teaches sociology of religion at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; he also teaches a course, designed specifically for Divinity School students, on the social organization of American religion)

Marquis Who's Who, via WWW, September 27, 2012 (Mark Alan Chaves; sociologist, educator; born April 13, 1960 in Jersey City, NJ; son of Alan Bertram Chaves and Joan Dorathea Mezger; Author: Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations, 1997; Congregations in America, 2004)