The Protestant Ethic and Modernization : a comparative view

Part I. The Protestant ethic thesis in the framework of sociological theory and of Weber's work. The Protestant ethic thesis in an analytical and comparative framework / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Method and substantive theory in Max Weber / Stanislav Andreski -- Part II. The application of the Protestant ethic thesis in Europe and the Americas. The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism : the history of a controversy / Ephraim Fischoff -- Once again : Calvinism and capitalism / Herbert Lüthy -- Puritanism as a revolutionary ideology / Michael Walzer -- Calvinism, capitalism, and the middle classes : some afterthoughts on an old problem / Sidney A. Burrell -- Protestantism and capitalism in pre-Revolutionary England / Charles and Katherine George -- Calvinism and law / David Little -- Culture change and the rise of Protestantism in Brazil and Chile / Emilio Willems -- Science and Reformation / R. Hooykaas -- Part III. The application of the Protestant ethic thesis outside of Europe. Reflections on the Protestant ethic analogy in Asia / Robert N. Bellah -- Economic development and ultramundaneity / Ralph Pieris -- Religion, bureaucracy, and economic growth / W.F. Wertheim -- Ideological and social change in Ceylon / Michael Ames -- Sanctity, Puritanism, secularization, and nationalism in North Africa / Ernest Gellner -- Religious belief and economic behavior in a central Javanese town / Clifford Geertz -- Secularization, modernization, and economic development / Gino Germani -- Calvinism, equality, and inclusion : the case of Afrikaner Calvinism / Jan J. Loubser