Protestant and Catholic: Is the Analogical Imagination Extinct?
作者重新定义了新教伦理概念，区分了辩证想象与类比想象。新教徒因视社会为有罪且被神遗弃而倾向个人主义，天主教徒因视社会为圣礼性、能揭示神而倾向社群主义。研究问题是：在工业化、现代化、城市化和同质化世界中，类比/社群主义想象能否持续？作者用七个国家（36个变量）的数据检验原假设（教派背景不预测价值取向），结果拒绝原假设。再用另一组七个国家（36个变量）的数据重复检验，再次拒绝原假设。最后用美国数据和13个假设进一步检验原假设（宗教意象差异不能解释新教徒与天主教徒在价值测量上的部分差异），同样拒绝原假设。
The notion of the Protestant Ethic is reconceptualized to reflect theoretical expectations about the difference between the Dialectical Imagination and the Analogical Imagination. Protestants are expected to be individualist because of an imagination of society as sinful and God-forsaken. Catholics are expected to be communitarian because of an imagination of society as sacramental, that is, revelatory of God. The research question is whether the analogical/communitarian imagination can persist in a world of industrialization, modernization, urbanization, and homogenization. The issue was tested against data from seven nations (36 variables) with the null hypothesis that denominational background does not predict value orientation. The null hypothesis was rejected. A replication was attempted with a different data set from seven nations (36 variables) and the null hypothesis was again rejected. Further testing with data and 13 hypotheses from only the United States tested the null hypothesis that differences in religious imagery could not account for some of the variance between Protestants and Catholics on value measures. This null hypothesis was also rejected.