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

Hughes Aaron W. Stenberg Leif
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399538411
Publisert
2025-05-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Redaktør
Hughes Aaron W.
Stenberg Leif

Om bidragsyterne

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. Leif Stenberg is Professor in Islamic Studies at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) and a visiting professor at Karlstad University. He is the co-editor of What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field, also in the Exploring Muslim Contexts series at Edinburgh University Press.

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

Hughes Aaron W. Stenberg Leif
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Hughes Aaron W. Stenberg Leif
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
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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,

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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Examines how football and religion act together to shape both identity and society in Muslim contexts
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch: How Football and Religion Are Shaping Identity and Society Aaron W. Hughes and Leif Stenberg Part I. Football and the Maintenance of Identities 1. Benzema, Les Bleus and the Culture des Quartiers Samuel Sami Everett 2. Football Nation, Muslim by Default Carl Rommel 3. Jewish Israeli Football Fans and 'Traditionism' Tamir Sorek 4. The Touchline of Fair Play: Football, Head Coverings and the Constantly Shifting Secular Aaron W. Hughes 5. Pakistan’s Hidden Football History: Capital, Women and Challenging Social Norms Leif Stenberg Part II. Football and Social Maintenance 6. Fashioning Football Conservatism: Ruling Networks, Culture and the Creation of Turkey’s Istanbul Başakşehir Football Club John McManus 7. Football Comes to the Silver Screen: The Contentious Politics of Football Spectatorship in Iran Nazanin Shahrokni 8. Egyptian Islamism and the Noble Game of Football Bjørn Olav Utvik 9. Why Hizbollah Loves Football Dag Tuastad About the Contributors Index
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Highlights how the relationship between religion and football is acted and staged today in the Middle East and North Africa, and in Muslim contexts around the world

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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,

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.
Les mer
Examines how football and religion act together to shape both identity and society in Muslim contexts
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Beautiful Game on a Muslim Pitch: How Football and Religion Are Shaping Identity and Society Aaron W. Hughes and Leif Stenberg Part I. Football and the Maintenance of Identities 1. Benzema, Les Bleus and the Culture des Quartiers Samuel Sami Everett 2. Football Nation, Muslim by Default Carl Rommel 3. Jewish Israeli Football Fans and 'Traditionism' Tamir Sorek 4. The Touchline of Fair Play: Football, Head Coverings and the Constantly Shifting Secular Aaron W. Hughes 5. Pakistan’s Hidden Football History: Capital, Women and Challenging Social Norms Leif Stenberg Part II. Football and Social Maintenance 6. Fashioning Football Conservatism: Ruling Networks, Culture and the Creation of Turkey’s Istanbul Başakşehir Football Club John McManus 7. Football Comes to the Silver Screen: The Contentious Politics of Football Spectatorship in Iran Nazanin Shahrokni 8. Egyptian Islamism and the Noble Game of Football Bjørn Olav Utvik 9. Why Hizbollah Loves Football Dag Tuastad About the Contributors Index
Les mer
Highlights how the relationship between religion and football is acted and staged today in the Middle East and North Africa, and in Muslim contexts around the world

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399538411
Publisert
2025-05-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Redaktør
Hughes Aaron W.
Stenberg Leif

Om bidragsyterne

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. Leif Stenberg is Professor in Islamic Studies at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) and a visiting professor at Karlstad University. He is the co-editor of What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field, also in the Exploring Muslim Contexts series at Edinburgh University Press.

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