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02875aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 F1168A8C471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 003 SILO 005 20200204010450 008 190505s2019 txua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781481311977 020 $a 1481311972 035 $a (OCoLC)1099832116 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d KPS $d YDXIT $d OCLCF $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a HQ1220 U5 M366x 2019 100 1 $a McMichael, Mandy, $e author. 245 10 $a Miss America's God : $b faith and identity in America's oldest pageant / $c Mandy McMichael. 264 1 $a Waco, Texas : $b Baylor University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xi, 249 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Miss America as sex -- Miss America as entertainment -- Miss America as competition -- Faith of the pageant, faith and the pageant -- Faith in the pageant -- Conclusion : born again : Miss America 2.0 -- Appendix : Miss Alabama, contestant survey. 520 $a The Miss America pageant has extraordinary staying power. Despite the cultural winds of the past century, Miss America continues to captivate the nation, giving America what it wants most--sex, entertainment, competition, religion, and even self-discovery. In Miss America's God, Mandy McMichael traces the pageant's long and complicated history. She demonstrates that the pageant is a little explored window into American culture, one that reveals a complex cocktail of all Americans hold dear. Ultimately, McMichael contends that the pageant is an unexpected cultural space of religious expression and self-discovery for many contestants whose faith communities support and validate their pageant participation. Miss America's God utilizes feminist theory, women's history, sociology, psychology, ethnography, and religious studies to explain the enduring popularity of the pageant, as well as religion's curious embrace of its spectacle. While contestants use the pageant to build faith and identity, the pageant uses the faith of the contestants to remain relevant in a society that is increasingly suspicious of it. McMichael shows just how central religion has been to Miss America. Religion, for Miss America, sanctifies sex, ritualizes entertainment, justifies competition, and enables self-discovery. Religion makes Miss America a cultural icon that withstands the test of time. 611 20 $a Miss America Pageant $x History. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $x Religious aspects. 650 0 $a Identification (Religion) 650 0 $a Women and religion $z United States. 650 0 $a Women $x Religious life $z United States. 650 0 $a Beauty contests $x Social aspects $z United States. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806025148.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F1168A8C471C11EA8C4E586797128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search