The Influence of the Church on the Western World

How we think, feel and reason isn't universally human, but it's impacted by all these historical factors. The church broke down European kinship structures into monogamous nuclear families. After the bans on cousin marriage are most famous, these incest taboos that get extended from brothers and sisters to sixth cousins at one point. And then what the books about is how it results in other institutions and affects aspects of people's psychology.