[Faith] Episode 8: Joseph Henrich - Is Christianity Weird?

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Cultural anthropologist Joseph Henrich joins Pete and Jared in this episode of Faith for Normal People to explain how the unique psychology of modern Western society was shaped by particular rules about family structure and marriage practices, often forced by religious institutions. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Faith for Normal People, the only other God ordained podcast on the internet.
0:04.7	I'm Pete Ends.
0:05.5	And I'm Jared Bias.
0:06.5	Welcome to this episode of Faith for Normal People, and today we're asking the question,
0:16.6	is Christianity weird?
0:18.3	Is it?
0:19.3	We're going to find out.
0:20.3	By talking to our guest, Dr. Joseph Henrake is the Ruth Moore professor of Biological Anthropology,
0:25.6	which is very heavy.
0:26.6	And the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, and he is the author
0:31.1	of a few books.
0:32.7	The most relevant one is the weirdest people in the world, how the West became psychologically
0:39.0	peculiar and particularly preposterous.
0:42.0	Not preposterous.
0:43.6	Prosperous.
0:44.6	Oh, they're preposterous in their own way.
0:46.8	That's right.
0:47.8	But they're also prosperous.
0:48.8	I was reading my own cultural location into the title of the book, folks, you don't know
0:52.8	what that means right now, but you will in a few minutes.
0:55.3	Anyway, we're working off of the acronym weird.
0:58.4	And then don't forget to stay tuned for a quiet time at the end of the episode.
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