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14. Family Law (Sweden)
(11,453 words)
previous chapter Family law covers a broad sphere of legal questions, such as marriage1 and divorce, child custody, spouses’ and cohabitees’ property rights, and maintenance and inheritance, on the substantive lev…
3. Muslims in Integration Laws (Sweden)
(1,430 words)
previous chapter From a legal point of view, religion is not an issue for the development of Swedish integration laws but, that said, it is evident that public debates and notions are often coloured by …
8. Islamic Chaplaincies in Public Institutions (Sweden)
(1,156 words)
previous chapter Spiritual care in prisons and hospitals has a long history in Sweden.1 For example, the Church of Sweden has played a central role in the development of both punishment regimes (prisons) and proce…
10. Islamic Slaughter and Food Regulations (Sweden)
(1,586 words)
previous chapter Like many other countries in Europe, Sweden banned Jewish kosher slaughter in 1937.1 As Göran Gunner and others have pointed out, this ban seems to have reflected public debates in the 1930s and th…
13. Criminal Law (Sweden)
(4,938 words)
previous chapter Under the heading criminal law, we will discuss laws and regulations that concern male circumcision, female genital mutilation and forced marriages in relation to Islam and Muslim affairs. 13.1 Male Circumcision The …
2. State Support for Islamic Religious Communities (Sweden)
(1,584 words)
previous chapter This chapter provides an overview of how the Swedish state organises its support for religious communities (Islamic religious communities included). The relationship between the state a…
5. Burial and Cemeteries (Sweden)
(472 words)
previous chapter According to § 1 of the Burial Act (
Begravningslagen 1990:1144), either the Church of Sweden or the municipality is responsible for providing burial sites for all citizens. The cost of burial is funded by a special tax (
b…
1. Status of Religious Communities (Sweden)
(6,480 words)
previous chapter The following sections highlight the impact of Swedish laws and regulations on the establishment and institutionalisation of Islam in Sweden. The first section describes how non-Christi…
11. Islamic Goods and Services (Sweden)
(273 words)
previous chapter There are in general no specific Swedish laws or regulations regarding Islamic goods and services. As long as devotional articles like books, pamphlets, clothes, perfumes or foods do no…
6. Education and Schools (Sweden)
(3,758 words)
previous chapter 6.1 Compulsory Education The right to education is a basic human right guaranteed in several human rights conventions. The right to education is one of the economic, social and cultural ri…
12. Islamic Dress (Sweden)
(2,641 words)
Title footnote1 previous chapter Both public and legal debates concerning what is seen as religious clothing, like various forms of veiling (hijab, niqab, etc.), are often closely related to questions con…
7. Further and Higher (Tertiary) Education (Sweden)
(900 words)
previous chapter There have been a number of attempts to start imam education programmes in Sweden, most if not all of which have failed because of internal differences and a generally low level of inte…
9. Employment, Social Laws and Discrimination (Sweden)
(2,818 words)
previous chapter Sweden has developed a legal system for combating racism, discrimination and hate crimes. The most basic law with regard to the non-discrimination clause in Swedish law is the Swedish C…
General Introduction (Sweden)
(521 words)
previous chapter Before we turn to the specific legal documents that can be seen, implicitly or explicitly, as relating to Muslims and Islamic affairs in Sweden, it is important to stress that the Swedi…
4. Mosques and Prayer Houses (Sweden)
(1,533 words)
previous chapter Like the great majority of European Muslims, Muslims in Sweden practise their religion in their private lives, but also in basements, warehouses or old industrial buildings that have be…
