Author: Andrew Collier
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: christian, belief, studies, realism, routledge, critical, religious, defence, cognitive, conception, context
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2004-01-03
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415315220
ISBN-13: 9780415315227

On Christian Belief offers a defence of realism in the philosophy of religion. It argues that religious belief - with particular reference to Christian belief - unlike any other kind of belief, is cognitive; making claims about what is real, and open to rational discussion between believers and non-believers. The author begins by providing a critique of several views which either try to describe a faith without cognitive context, or to justify believing on non-cognitive grounds. He then discusses what sense can be made of the phenomenon of religious conversion by realists and non-realists. Aft

Authors:Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J Collier,
Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research Press
Keywords: ecpr, press, classics, analysis, framework, party, systems, parties
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0954796616
ISBN-13: 9780954796617

In this rich and broad-ranging volume, Giovanni Sartori outlines what is now recognised to be the most comprehensive and authoritative approach to the classification of party systems. He also offers an extensive review of the concept and rationale of the political party, and develops a sharp critique of various spatial models of party competition. This is political science at its best -- combining the intelligent use of theory with sophisticated analytic arguments, and grounding all of this on a substantial cross-national empirical base. Parties and Party Systems is one of the classics of post

Authors:Andrew Lakoff, Stephen J Collier,
Publisher: European Consortium for Political Research Press
Keywords: ecprclassics, elites, political
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2008-03-01
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0954796608
ISBN-13: 9780954796600

Political Elites, first published in 1969, reviews the literature on the role of elites in politics. It deals with both the ’classic’ elite theorists -- Mosca, Pareto, Michels, Burnham and C. Wright Mills -- and with many of the empirical and theoretical works on elites by modern political scientists and sociologists. It seeks to clarify the central terms of elite discourse, some of which have entered the everyday political vocabulary -- ’elitism’, ’power elite’, ’establishment’, ’elite consensus’, ’iron law of oligarchy’

Authors:Roy Bhaskar, Margaret Archer, Andrew Collier, Tony La
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: critical, realism, interventions, essential, readings
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 1998-10-15
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0415196329
ISBN-13: 9780415196321

Since the publication of Roy Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science in 1975, critical realism has emerged as one of the most powerful new directions in the philosophy of science and social science, offering a real alternative to both positivism and postmodernism. This reader makes accessible in one volume key readings to stimulate debate about and within critical realism, including: the transcendental realist philosophy of science elaborated in A Realist Theory of Science; Bhaskar’s critical naturalist philosophy of social science; the theory of explanatory critique, which is centra

Authors:Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier, Douglas V. Porpo
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: critical, realism, interventions, god, transcendence
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-06-15
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0415336171
ISBN-13: 9780415336178

This book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief, demonstrating that the three pillars of Critical Realism -- ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality -- can be applied to religion. The three authors are critical realists by philosophical position. They seek to establish a level playing field between religion and secular ideas, which has not existed in the academic world for some generations, in order for reasoned debate to be conducted.

Authors:James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier,
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
Keywords: dead, sam, brother
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1984-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0027229807
ISBN-13: 9780027229806

Authors:John,Jr. Collier, Malcolm Collier,
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: method, research, photography, anthropology, visual
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 1986-10-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0826308996
ISBN-13: 9780826308993

First published in 1967, Visual Anthropology has become a classic in its field, invaluable not only for anthropologists but for anyone using photography, film, and video to understand human behavior and culture. This completely revised and expanded edition brings the technical information up to date and includes the insights the Colliers have gained from nearly thirty-five additional years of collective teaching and research experience since the first edition.