A Survival Ethic and Tailored Morality in African Traditional Religions

In some traditional African religions, the moral sense is different. According to Karen McKarthy Brown, author of Mama Lola, Vodou's morality is "life ethics." Brown advanced further and pointed out that Vodo's ethics was tailored to specific individuals or groups related to the situation. Brown said that each spirit had a moral tension, but the spirit never wins (Brown, p. 242). One of Brown's best explanations for one of the reasons is that there is no golden age in the past, there is no paradise in the future, so there is nothing more important than your survival and one's survival .

In African traditional society, compliance with moral integrity, ethics and social values, and combinations of these values ​​with specific survival skills - as medical scientists and fishermen - (Balogun, 2008). In the context of Africa, virtue training and character development are considered to be the two most important educational goals. The educational process is aimed at nurturing "citizens". It has been confirmed that the educational system in Africa is designed to train faithful, respectful and fair citizens (Elleni, 1995; Fordor et al., 2003).

In some traditional African religions, the moral sense is different. In Mama Lola, author Karen McKarthy Brown stated that Vodou's ethics is "survival ethics." Brow's ethics states that it is tailored to specific individuals or groups related to the situation. Brown said that each spirit had a moral tension, but the spirit never wins (Brown, p. 242). - In the evening, Elie Wiesel wrote the personal experience of the Holocaust in a memoir 'Night'. He was a Jew, ruled by a notorious dictator Hitler and sent to concentration camps. Erie was robbed of everything belonging to him. Everything he did in life will be taken away by him at once. He is also away from his mother and sister. On the other hand, he is lucky to survive and tell his story.

In most traditional African religions, there are spiritual leaders, various priests or pastors. This person is essential to the spiritual and religious existence of the community. In Zulu culture, there are mystics and hemangiomas responsible for treatment and "fortune" - fortune telling and counseling. These traditional therapists must be summoned by their ancestors. They learn a lot of skills including rigorous training, including other more strange skills such as how to use herbs for treatment and finding things hidden without knowing where it is.