Manuela Ceballos

Manuela Ceballos, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, compares saints across sixteenth-century Iberia and Morocco. She traces conversations about blood, dung, purity, and conversion across Spanish and Arabic sources. Short segments explore gendered bleeding, tanneries and urban waste, ritual uses of blood, and how embodiment shapes claims to sanctity and social power.

Manuela Ceballos, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and author of Between Dung and Blood. She traces interconnected Iberian and Moroccan lives to examine how blood, dung, and lineage shaped purity and sainthood. Short, vivid stories move between tanneries and relics. The conversation compares Spanish limpieza de sangre, Moroccan shurafa claims, bleeding saints, and embodied mysticism.

Manuela Ceballos, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and scholar of early modern Iberia and North Africa. She traces two sixteenth-century saints across Spain and Morocco. Topics include purity of blood, saintly bleeding and menstrual stigma, tanneries and urban waste, genealogies of converts, and how blood functions as shifting material and metaphor.