“god love all them feelingsβ: sex and spiritual embodiment in the color purple
In Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Shug Avery introduces the novel's protagonist, Celie, to the concept of religious embodiment. While popular theology asserts that the body, with all its attendant yearnings and desires, is completely separate from the soul, which is typically associated with spirituality and the divine, analogies and metaphors that link the spiritual β