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Andrew Wilson discusses how the year 1776 reshaped the modern world and the rise of the post-Christian West.

Send us Fan Mail 1776 gets treated like a patriotic shorthand, but it also works like a master key for the modern world. We sit down with Andrew Wilson to talk about Remaking the World and why one crowded year can illuminate the rise of the post-Christian West better than a thousand hot takes about the last decade. We unpack Andrew’s “WEIRDER” framework (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic, ex-Christian, romantic) and trace the seven shifts that propel it: globalization, Enli...

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Guest: Andrew Wilson

Topics covered

• history
• post-Christian West
• globalization
• cultural shifts
• religion
• spirituality

Keywords

• 1776
• Andrew Wilson
• WEIRDER framework
• post-Christian
• globalization
• cultural shifts

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Books & works: WEIRDER framework

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