The Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch: How Football and Religion Are Shaping Identity and Society (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399538411)

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.

Author: Aaron W. Hughes
ISBN-10: 1399538411
ISBN-13: 9781399538411
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2025
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d