Today the FIFA World Cup kicks off.
Billions of people will spend the next few weeks experiencing hope, faith, devotion, miracles, despair, pilgrimage, sacrifice, ecstasy and heartbreak.
All the ingredients of a religion?
A new 100% AI series from Alys Thomas exploring football fandom as a form of popular spirituality — somewhere between pilgrimage, folklore, collective ritual and mass devotion.
No matches.
No goals.
Just the strange, beautiful and sometimes absurd things people do when they believe.
Welcome to the congregation.
