Primitive Theories of Religion: Evolutionism after Evans-Pritchard

Evolutionism, Creationism, and Treating Religion as a Hobby

Psychoanalytic Theories of Religion in Protestant Contexts

Psychoanalysts since Sigmund Freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. Freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while Slavoj Žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. In this essay, I dig into these theories to uncover traces of Lutheran interpretations of Paul’s words on the Jewish l...

psychoanalytic theories of religion in protestant contexts

psychoanalysts since sigmund freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while slavoj žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. in this essay, i dig into these theories to uncover traces of lutheran interpretations of paul’s words on the jewish l...

Critique of primitive model electrolyte theories

Approximate theories for the restricted primitive model electrolyte are compared in the light of Totsuji’s lower bound for the energy ~an improvement over Onsager’s!, Gillan’s upper bound for the free energy, and thermal stability requirements. Theories based on the Debye-Hückel ~DH! approach and the mean spherical approximation ~MSA!, including extensions due to Bjerrum, Ebeling, Fisher, and L...

Efficiency of Phytoseiulus longipes Evans as a control agent of Tetranychus evansi Baker & Pritchard (Acari: Phytoseiidae: Tetranychidae) on screenhouse tomatoes.

The spider mite Tetranychus evansi Baker & Pritchard can cause severe damage to tomato crops. The predatory mite Phytoseiulus longipes Evans was recently reported in association with T. evansi in Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of P. longipes on the population of T. evansi on tomatoes under screenhouse condition. The st...