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Professor Mark Chaves, Head of the Dept. of Sociology, University of Arizona, discusses ten myths about religiously-based social services and faith-based initiatives.
Chaves has a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. Much of his work spans the boundary between the sociology of religion and the sociology of organizations.
Publications include Ordaining Women: Culture and Conflict in Religious Organizations (Harvard University Press 1997) and "The Religious Ethic and the Spirit of Nonprofit Entrepreneurship" (in Private Action and the Public Good, edited by Walter W. Powell and Elisabeth S. Clemens, Yale University Press 1998). He also co-edited, with Sharon Miller, Financing American Religion(AltaMira Press 1999), a collection of research on the intersection between religion and money.
He is Principal Investigator for the National Congregations Study (NCS), a survey of a nationally representative sample of religious congregations, conducted in conjunction with the 1998 General Social Survey. The NCS has gathered very high quality data on, among other things, congregations' programming, social composition, organizational structure, and ties to other religious and secular organizations. Publications based on these data include "Congregations and Social Services: What They Do, How They Do It, and With Whom" (co-authored with William Tsitsos, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, December 2001, 30:forthcoming),"Religious Congregations and Welfare Reform: Who Will Take Advantage of 'Charitable Choice'?" (American Sociological Review, December 1999, 64:836-846), "Are Congregations Constrained by Government? Empirical Results from the National Congregations Study" (co-authored with William Tsitsos, Journal of Church and State, Spring 2000, 42:335-344), "Resources, Race, and Female-Headed Congregations in the United States" (co-authored with Mary Ellen Konieczny, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, September 2000, 39:261-271), and How Do We Worship? (Alban Institute 1999).
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