Religious Accommodation, Religious Tradition, and Political Polarization: (one free download) What happens when a liberal democracy loses its common source or sources for its existential convictions and its raison d’tre? The practice of religious accommodation from government agencies now generate difficulties that aggravate the political polarization they were intended to reduce. This essay focuses on some explanations for this unfortunate state of affairs — those that relate to the antagonistic relationship between religious accommodation and established religious groups and traditions.