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The Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch: How Football and Religion Are Shaping Identity and Society

The Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch: How Football and Religion Are Shaping Identity and Society

Stenberg, Leif
Hughes, Aaron W.

Paperback

Series: Exploring Muslim Contexts

Comparative ReligionReligion General Islam

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 30, 2026

ISBN10: 139953842X
ISBN13: 9781399538428
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Nov 30 2026
Pages: 208
Language: English
This book showcases how football and religion are increasingly coming together in Muslim contexts to interact with and influence both identity and society. The first part of the volume is devoted to issues of identity, showing how football aids in its construction, maintenance and subversion. The second part reveals the deep-rooted connections between football and political and religious establishments by demonstrating how these establishments frequently use the game to disseminate or propagate their larger messages. Taken together, the book reveals how football has increasingly become a site for confrontations and negotiations over different understandings of religion - as a racial category, as gendered power, and as it is invested in issues of state politics.

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