Like many another civilization before it, the U.S. is acquiring its goddess. Writing in the current issue of the Protestant biweekly, Christianity and Crisis, Harvey Cox of the Division of Evangelism of the American Baptist Home Mission Societies identifies her as The Girl.
"Miss America," he writes, "stands in a long line of queens going back to Isis, Ceres and Aphrodite. Everything from the elaborate sexual taboos surrounding her person to the symbolic gifts at her coronation hints at her ancient ancestry. But the real proof comes when we find that the function served by The Girl in our culture is just...
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