id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_b6eaclpnivbephsqqzbtywgb4y Alek D. Epstein The freedom of conscience and sociological perspectives on dilemmas of collective secular disobedience: The case of Israel 2002.0 17 .pdf application/pdf 9980 592 56 whereas conscientious disobedience, which is usually justi� ed by a large number of 'legitimate' civil society organizations and groups, as a rule is not assigned any recognized status As a result, state authorities use the force of law in order to de-legitimize the patterns of conscientious disobedience that can really endanger their status in authorities ever recognized secular grounds before religious motives as the basis for accepting conscientious objection and exempting COs from combatant military service. freedom of conscience and other rights, such as freedom of thought, as well as the connection between conscientious objection and civil disobedience, are debatable as well. Undoubtedly, this distinction, accepted by legal authorities (that often recognize only religiously predetermined patterns of conscientious objection), is rather comfortable for the state, which can grant 'freedom of conscience' without Usually, as civil disobedience is designed to bring a change in the policy or the principle served by the law being disobeyed, and as conscientious objection is not intended to ./cache/work_b6eaclpnivbephsqqzbtywgb4y.pdf ./txt/work_b6eaclpnivbephsqqzbtywgb4y.txt