En symbolisk lagstiftning : En kritiskt diskursteoretisk utmaning av religionsfrihetens gränser och eventuell nytolkning av dess innebörd

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this critical discourse analysis study is to analyse Swedish and international legislation to determine if it is possible to restrict the use of religious symbols among extreme right movements. To contextualise the analysis material it is prudent to describe the rise and development of Nordic neo-paganism and its connections to extreme right movements. Since the runes in this study share some history with the swastika in Nazi Germany some context about the history of this symbol is also provided. I have divided the analysis into two sections: The first part evaluates legislation and includes the Swedish contitutional law (RF), the European convention on human rights (ECHR) as well as the Swedish discrimination law. The analysis also includes legislative information from the Swedish government agencies called the Chancellor of Justice and the Swedish Agency for Support to Faith Communities. The second part of the analysis focuses on two political extreme right parties called The Nordic resistance movement (NRM) and the Swedish party (SP) as well as their symbols, the tyr rune and the helmet of terror. The result of the analysis shows that it is not possible to limit the religious legislations’ inner core, which stipulates the rights of belief and freedom from it. It is however possible to make limitations in the legislations’ outer core which is mainly comprised of the freedom of speech dimension of the religious freedom.