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

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Aaron W. Hughes Leif Stenberg

The Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch

How Football and Religion are Shaping Identity and Society

Aaron W. Hughes, Leif Stenberg

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Edinburgh University Press
31 May 2025

Comparative religion; Islamic life & practice; Sociology: sport & leisure; Football (Soccer, Association football)

Series: Exploring Muslim Contexts

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.

Edited by: Aaron W. Hughes, Leif Stenberg
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399538411
ISBN 10: 1399538411
Series: Exploring Muslim Contexts
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 31 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aaron W. Hughes is Dean's Professor of the Humanities and the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Religion at the University of Rochester. Hughes specialises in three fields: Islamic Studies, Jewish Studies and Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, and has written numerous books in all three. He is co-editor of the book series Advances in the Study of Islam at Edinburgh University Press and of the Journal of Religious Minorities Under Muslim Rule.

Reviews for The Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch: How Football and Religion are Shaping Identity and Society

The book is very well placed in recent anthropological and social studies of football. The writing is compelling and attuned to the fact that the topic is huge in global popular culture.--Sune Haugbølle, Roskilde University