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• 2.0 out of 5 stars from Charles Freeman -- Henrich's central argument and its offshoots are not supported by historical fact. : Western Europe had had a long history before the Christians came. The Roman empire from 300 BC enabled a prosperous trade and economy to become established across the Mediterranean. It was an empire of cities, Rome itself may have had a million inhabitants, and city life, temples, baths and sophisticated living, including literacy among the elite, was widespread throughout the western Roman provinces. Roman law, which protected individual rights, was a major achievement. Individual farmers , smallholders, villa owners, underpinned property rights. The collapse of the Western empire in the fifth century was total and similar levels of prosperity may not have been reached in Europe before 1500, some say 1800. Post-Roman Europe was ethnically diverse, original Romanised populations, incoming Germanic tribes settled among them (including Anglo-Saxon England), communities such as the Irish who had never experienced Rome. The extension of Christianity took centuries to take effect, a thousand years between Christianisation in France and in Lithuania. ( Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2020 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Emmett A. Coyne -- The cultural revolution of the West is becoming catholic : A ton of books continue to be published, but most are variations on a theme.  Few are as original as The Weirdest People in the World.  A review in the NYT whetted my appetite. I read the sample and was hooked.  But after getting into it I got bogged down. His scholarship, in some areas, was tedious. Like tribal kinship arrangements. I decided I would skim such.  His depth is important, especially for serious critics, other scholars. Not for me as a generalist. He was providing more depth than I wanted to dig through.  Henrich is not a generalist as a thoroughist. I admire his candidness in admitting some concepts were inconclusive, open to more study, etc. His general thesis was astounding – crediting the Roman Catholic Church, with a booster shot from Protestantism, in initiating the West we live in today.  While I’ve been a part of the RCC for these many years, I never viewed it in this perspective.  And yet Henrich notes the RCC stumbled into the paradigm that made the West what it is today. It was more of an institutional effort rather than a theological or biblical application. (Henrich identifies himself as “non-religious.”) It began innocuously with banning marriage between cousins!  Something that had been normative for eons. For years I had couples fill out marriage forms and couldn’t understand the obsession with relationships and consanguinity, etc.  Henrich reveals why. Nor am I aware of any cultural analysis which factors in canonists. He certainly jarred my formed brain, at the same time providing revelation about deeply held concepts; not knowing why they are deeply held! One is the issue of guilt. Catholics have been caricatured as obsessed with guilt.  Henrich parses why.  Guilt is something an individual has in response to certain actions. The awareness of being an individual precedes the feeling of guilt.  Guilt isn’t necessarily bad as often dismissed.  It reflects an individual’s sense of responsibility for one’s acts. I don’t intend to be exhaustive but simply provide how this work forces one to revisit numerous concepts that now make more sense than Iever imbued them with. It caused me to think of Jesus as perhaps the first weird person. Henrich doesn’t provide any exegesis of scripture, nor theological discourse as focusing on the Roman Catholic Church as an institution. However, I began to perceive many of the concepts that are normative for western society inchoate in Jesus. The issue of intense kinship is key to Henrich’s analysis.  Jesus rejected intense kinship. The very question of his inconclusive parentage underscores his severing traditional kinship ties. In his adulthood, he questions who is my mother, who are my brothers and sisters? (MT: 12:48) His response transcends blood.  He challenged persons to be analytic. The parable of the Good Samaritan is a classic example of his probing what others think, as he did constantly using parables for people to parse.  Going against tradition is essential for Henrich’s thesis to break out of the kinship mold and hold.  Jesus did this constantly, creating an adversarial relation to the keepers of the tradition. His rejecting the law as an absolute and elevating the person for whom the law is to serve was considered blasphemous. “The Sabbath is made for man; not man for the Sabbath.”  I feel I could take distinctive qualities that Henrich contends made the West peculiar, weird and find many of the seminal concepts in the uniqueness of Jesus as an historical person.  When a writer stretches one’s imagination, the writer has succeeded. There has been much discussion of how western pop culture has impacted the world. But Henrich’s is offering a deeper analysis of how many concepts which emerged in western society are now being tested one way or another through the world.  The cultural evolution of the west is becoming catholic.  ( Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2020 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from William Jordan -- Interesting and thought-provoking : I am very pleased I worked my way through the 500 pages of this book (the main text, ie, not the notes). ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2021 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Mr RT Bell -- Really Really Thought Provoking : What was fascinating was the analogy of cultural evolution with biological evolution. Must not take this too far but it has echoes of Dawkins memes. The three necessities for evolution are 1) the ability to inherit a culture 2) the occurrence of variations in a culture (‘mistakes’ in copying) 3) a mechanism for selection of ‘favourable’ cultures by virtue of their being successful. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2020 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Bookworm -- A long but rewarding read! : Apart from giving a pretty convincing argument for the outstanding economic development of economies based on West European philosophy of equality, endeavour, rules-based trade and morality, this book makes you question the attempted forced imposition of these standards on those parts of the world that have not (so far) embraced this philosophy. We believe we are right, but what right do we have to impose our beliefs on others? A must read. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2021 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from DR. PAULO FINURAS -- A tour de force. : This is a great job from J. Henrich, and I have been following this scientist since at least 2011. I consider it a very relevant and fundamental work to understand the mental software of the populations of the WEIRD world. After all, just looking at the path we have taken will we understand how we got here. An extremely important reading that I strongly recommend. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 12, 2020 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Amazon Customer -- Being Weird in a not so Weird country : I once read somewhere that there was an almost perfect correlation between Italian villages which had choirs in the middle ages and how rich and prosperous were the cities that grew from them. This book showed me that this correlation was not causal and gave a clear and plausible justification for that apparently weird correlation (no pun intended). It also helped me understand some of the non Weird traits of my native country that so annoy me. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2020 )

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