Tutor profile: Cole P.

How can Religious Studies help foster an important disposition with regard to academic studies?

Religious Studies is a meaningful subject. Students of Religious Studies often incur questions to which the answers help create an open minded position in relation to societal norms, customs, and ethics. Many important theories and methods are born out of Religious Studies - such as Affect theory, exegesis, functionalism, etc. - for which the subject deserves credit. Religious Studies has long held an important position amongst Academia.

What is Epistemology and what are the main goals of Epistemological investigation?

Epistemology is the study or theory of knowledge. The main goals of Epistemological investigation are (1) to answer questions like 'What is knowledge?' 'What is wisdom?' 'What is of human understanding?' (2) what are the many ways in which we come to know things? Preferentially said, how do we acquire knowledge? and (3) to analyze and appropriately apply doxastic attitudes in relation to propositions.

What instruments typically make up a traditional Ewe ensemble?

Gonkogui - the bell. Responsible for creating the rhythmic timeline. Atsimevu - the lead drum. Played by the master/chief drummer. Sogo and Kidi - the support drums. Create the melodic aspect of Ewe music. Kaganu - another support drum. Played with thin sticks, the kaganu plays an ostinato throughout the rhythm.