Protestant and Catholic

Is the Analogical Imagination Extinct

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5248784
AutoresAndrew Greeley, Andrew M Greeley (autor de correspondencia)
Año1989
Volumen54
Número4
Páginas485
Fecha de publicación1989-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2095873
OpenAlexW2322395192
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas50
Referencias citadas2

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

Dialectic · Econometrics · Epistemology · Individualism · Modernization theory · Null (SQL · Null hypothesis · Political science · Protestant work ethic · Protestantism · Sociology · Statistics · Value (mathematics · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Social Psychology