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    The moral attitudes of practitioners of traditional African religion are independent (autonomous) from the conduct and commands of spiritual beings.

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    • 1.In a non-revealed religious context, the moral character of spiritual messages must be judged by the people themselves on the basis of their own moral insights.
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    • 2.The people evaluate the gods with respect or contempt based on whether the gods deliver results.
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    • 3.Moral disapprobation of deities' actions by the people has led to the extinction of some deities from the Akan pantheon.
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    • 1.In Akan religious practice, the ontological power of spirits (sunsum) constitutes the very framework within which moral concepts like 'good life' (onipa pa) are intelligible.
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    • 2.When a moral framework's foundational categories are defined by spiritual ontology, moral judgments cannot be autonomous from that ontology even if they appear evaluatively independent.
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    • 3.The extinction of deities from a pantheon confirms spiritual authority structures, not independence from them, since the community acts as custodian of spiritual legitimacy rather than as an external moral critic.
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    • 1.Durkheim and Evans-Pritchard both demonstrated that in traditional societies, moral norms are structurally embedded in religious cosmologies, making conceptual separation of the two analytically misleading.
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    • 2.The Akan concept of 'onyame nhye wo kwan' (what God forbids) shows that divine prohibition and moral wrongness are co-extensive in ordinary Akan moral discourse, not independently derived.
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    I define spirituality as a heightened form of religiosity reached by certain individuals in the community who have, or claim to have, mystical contacts with the supernatural, the divine. It would be correct to assert, however, that the encounters are the results, rather than the sources, of religion in Africa in the traditional setting. And, even though ‘spiritual messages’ may be received by the practitioners of traditional African religion through those mystical encounters part of which (‘mess
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