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Technorati“Congregations apparently have enthusiastically embraced new information technologies,” Chaves noted in the detailed article found in the latest issue of the journal Sociology of Religion.
In other findings, the median congregation is the same size today as it was in 1998 (75 regular participants); the median person still attends a congregation that is the same size as it was in 1998 (400 regular participants); the overall level of conflict within congregations has not changed much since 1998, with 26 percent of congregations experiencing a conflict in the last 2 years that led some people to leave and only 2 percent of congregations reporting a conflict over homosexuality; and there has been no increase since 1998 in the extent of congregational involvement in social services, in the percent of congregations receiving public funds in support of their social service work, or in the extent of congregations’ collaborations with government.
The National Congregation Study Wave II compared 1,505 congregations in 2006-2007 with 1,234 in 1998. About 60 percent of the NCS-II questions replicate those from the 1998 study. The data was mostly gathered via telephone, along with some in-person, interviews between May 2006 and April 2007.
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