Compromise is surprisingly common in the context of religious freedom. In Holt v. Hobbs , for example, a Muslim prison inmate challenged his prison’s no-beards policy on religious freedom grounds. He proposed, and was eventually granted, a compromise that allowed him to grow a half-inch beard rather than the full beard normally required by his beliefs. Some have argued that such a compromise is inconsistent with the purpose of religious freedom, which is to guard against interference with an individual’s religious practices. Accepting a compromise, after all, may require a significant modification to one’s default practices. But this paper argues that compromise can be appropriate if the purpose of religious freedom is to foster the inclusion and acceptance of all people in a diverse political community. Moreover, the benefits of compromise may lend support to the inclusion-based conception of religious freedom as against the more traditional non-interference conception.

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妥协和宗教自由

在宗教自由的背景下，妥协出奇地普遍。例如，在 Holt v. Hobbs 一案中，一名穆斯林监狱囚犯以宗教自由为由质疑其监狱的无胡子政策。他提出并最终获得了妥协，允许他留出半英寸的胡须，而不是他的信仰通常要求的浓密胡须。一些人认为，这种妥协与宗教自由的目的不一致，宗教自由是为了防止干扰个人的宗教活动。毕竟，接受妥协可能需要对一个人的默认做法进行重大修改。但本文认为，如果宗教自由的目的是在多元化的政治社区中促进所有人的包容和接受，那么妥协可能是适当的。而且，