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📊 Using datasets like Religion and the State and Global Restrictions on Religion, we performed an MCA to map 27 EU countries into four categories:
🔹 Accommodation
🔹 Public secularism
🔹 Restrictive privatisation
🔹 Privatised religious freedom

We define Governmental Religious Accommodation as a political right—an institutional response to minority religious needs across:
✔️ Materials
✔️ Practices
✔️ Rights

What does it mean for a government to accommodate religion?

Our article presents a multidisciplinary framework and an empirical model to assess how EU countries approach religious accommodation beyond Islam.

💬 This special issue opens a necessary conversation about the afterlives of Muslims in Europe.
Death reveals the hidden boundaries of citizenship, belonging, and recognition.

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🇸🇪 How does Sweden’s multiculturalism extend to death?

The Politics of Death and Multiculturalism by Magdalena Nordin explores how Muslim burial practices reveal tensions between group rights and individual freedoms.

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#MuslimGraves

🪦 Muslim bodies in secular European cemeteries examines how Muslims navigate burial in secularised cemeteries.

The article by Yasemin Ural explores the interplay of secularisation, religious identity, and public visibility in European deathscapes.

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🇫🇷🇳🇱 How do institutional biases shape Islamic burial in Europe?
This article by Van den Breemer and Maussen offers a typology to analyse how France and the Netherlands respond differently to Muslim burial needs amid rising diversity.

#MuslimsInEurope

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🇪🇸 Moros y Cristianos Together? examines the politics of death as a lens on multiculturalism, revealing how Muslims face systemic barriers to burial and postmortem belonging. By
Paula M Arana Barbier.

#PoliticsofDeath #MuslimsInSpain

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Towards multicultural memory examines contestations over a Muslim burial space in post-Civil War Asturias, 🇪🇸. Becker et al.

It situates memory, space, and religious pluralism within broader European debates on multiculturalism and minoritised belonging.

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The article is part of a special issue on Multiculturalism and the Afterlives of Muslims in Europe, which examines cases in France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.

In it, I connect Muslim cemeteries from the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s National Catholicism to the situation experienced by Muslims today while attempting to showcase the importance of cemeteries in the construction of the national imaginary.