I don't know if this will be helpful since I don't know
what exactly your essay topic is, but I think that Weber would say that his analysis
still holds true today.
Weber did not say that religion was
still the actual driving force behind capitalism in his day. Instead, he said that
previous religious fervor had sort of shaped society. By his day, he said, people had
the ideas (work for work's sake) without really connecting it to
religion.
I think he would say that the capitalist ethic
has spread now in a way that no longer has so much to do with religion. He would point
out that it has spread, for example, to Japan and even to
China.
However, he might argue that a lack of Protestant
history is what holds back places like Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Latin
America.
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