Becker, Penny Edgell. 1999. Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Harris, Margaret. 1998. Organizing God’s Work. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Wuthnow, Robert. 1994. Producing the Sacred. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
The Effects of Size
Carroll, Jackson W. (Ed.). 1977. Small Churches are Beautiful. New York: Harper & Row.
Routhage, Arlin J. 1986. Sizing Up a Congregation for New Member Ministry. New York: Episcopal Church Center.
Change
Ammerman, Nancy Tatom. 1997. Congregation and Community. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Douglass, H. Paul. 1927. The Church in the Changing City. New York: Doran.
Dudley, Carl S., and Nancy T Ammerman. 2002. Congregations in Transition. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
Conflict
Becker, Penny Edgell. 1999. Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zuckerman, Phil. 1998. Strife in the Sanctuary. Walnut Creek, California: Alta Mira.
Leadership
Carroll, Jackson W. 1991. As One With Authority: Reflective Leadership in Ministry. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox.
Dolan, Jay P. 1994. “Patterns of Leadership in the Congregation.” Pp. 225-256 in American Congregations, edited by James P Wind and James W Lewis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ingram, Larry C. 1980. “Notes on Pastoral Power in the Congregational Tradition.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 19:40-48.
Wallace, Ruth A. 1993. “The Social Construction of a New Leadership Role: Catholic Women Pastors.” Sociology of Religion 54:31-42.
Walrath, Douglas A. 1979. Leading Churches Through Change. Nashville: Abindgon.
Commitment
D’Antonio, William V., James Davidson, Dean Hoge, and Catherine Meyer. 2001. American Catholics: Gender, Generation, and Commitment. Walnut Creek, Cal.: Altamira.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. 1972. Commitment and Community. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Wuthnow, Robert. 1994. Sharing the Journey. New York: Free Press.
Wuthnow, Robert. 1997. The Crisis in the Churches: Spiritual Malaise, Fiscal Woe. New York: Oxford University Press.