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Entry: Waiting for Agitprop Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/waiting_for_agitprop#24399 Post contents: Nicholas is correct that American courts in the nineteenth century identified polygamy with despotism, and in my work The Search for Historical Meaning, I show how important Hegel's references to Oriental forms of control were in shaping this perception that the Protestant, constitutionally based Western world was different from the East and its immemorial, oppressive customs. But this view was certainly not the same as the one put forth by Lowry, which presents "liberal democracy" as the unchanging essence of the American regime and American society.It is also important to recognize the heavy component of Protestant Christianity that permeated the attack on polygamy arising among nineteenth-century Republicans. Back then the Republicans were still literally the Methodist Church in the voting booth. Sent at: 2008 09 06