Between Dung and Blood (eBook)

Purity, Sainthood, and Power in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean

Manuela Ceballos (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
296 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-42104-2 (ISBN)

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Between Dung and Blood investigates the stories of two sixteenth-century saints: the Spanish Christian Teresa de Jess and the Moroccan Sufi Sd Riwn al-Januw, both from families of converts. Through the stories of these saints, Manuela Ceballos reveals the roles played by blood and bodily pollution as substances and symbols in the religious and political fabric of the early modern Western Mediterranean. Drawing primarily on Arabic and Spanish sources, the author argues that in Morocco and Iberia, ideas about blood and bodily pollution helped shape processes of bodily differentiation as well as social hierarchies based on notions of ritual purity and impurity. Providing an inside look at the dynamics within Moroccan and Iberian societies as they grappled with the social and religious upheaval of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Ceballos shows that the real and imagined border between geographies and religious traditions could, at times, be porous and conducive to shared beliefs.

Inhalt

Contents

Note on Transliteration and Dates
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Blood and Filth: A Background
2. From Between Dung and Blood Comes Milk: Reconsidering Purity Through Sīdī Riḍwān al-Januwī
3. The Blood and Body of Saint Teresa
4. By Way of Blood and Filth: Conceptions of Bodily Transmission in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean
5. Purity: Material and Genealogical Intersections
Conclusion: Stories That Matter

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.12.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: conversion narratives • corporeal symbolism • cross-cultural sanctity • early modern identities • Iberian religious history • interfaith encounters • Islamic-Christian relations • purity symbolism • religious boundary-making • religious hybridity • ritual purity laws • sacred embodiment • Social Stratification • spiritual authority • trans-Mediterranean culture
• ISBN-10: 0-520-42104-3 / 0520421043
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-42104-2 / 9780520421042