More than 20% of countries recognize a single religion in their constitution. Many normative theorists believe that this objectionable within multi-religious societies. Yet, as I show in my article, ‘Five arguments against single state religions’, the arguments that they have levelled against the constitutional recognition of a single religion, or what I call ‘mono-recognition’, are either incomplete or based on questionable empirical assumptions. In their stead, I offer a new argument. Rather than trying to identify some inherent and decisive flaw in mono-recognition as other authors have tried to do, this argument shows that mono-recognition is pro tanto wrong within many societies because there exists a fairer alternative: a system whereby multiple religions are constitutionally recognized. To be more precise, my contention is that a form of plural recognition whereby state religions are rotated, which I refer to as ‘diachronic plural recognition’, is fairer than mono-recognition within multi-religious societies even if there are overriding reasons for maintaining the latter within some of these societies, such as that abolishing mono-recognition would lead to serious social unrest.

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回顾基于欲望的对单一州宗教的反对：对我的批评者的答复

超过20％的国家/地区在宪法中承认单一宗教。许多规范理论家认为，这在多宗教社会中是令人反感的。但是，正如我在我的文章中所展示的，“反对单一国家宗教的五种论点”，它们反对宪法承认一种单一宗教或我所谓的“单一承认”的论点要么不完整，要么基于可疑的实证假设。我提出了一个新的论点。该论证表明，在许多社会中，单身识别是错误的，因为存在着一种更公平的选择：一种系统，即多重识别是一种多元的系统，而不是像其他作者一样试图识别单身识别的某些固有和决定性的缺陷。宗教在宪法上得到承认。更确切地说，我的论点是，即使有最主要的理由来维持国家宗教的旋转，我称之为“历时性多元承认”的多元承认形式也比单一宗教在多宗教社会中更公平。在这些社会中的某些社会中，后者的存在，例如废除单一承认将导致严重的社会动荡。