Saviorism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈseɪvjəɹɪzm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Saviorism is a noun meaning Belief in a savior.
Meaning
Belief in a savior.
More Meanings
- (sociology) A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them.
Example Sentences
I show how white men attempted to save brown women from brown men in colonial India. […] Spivak notes the efforts to build discourses of saviorism in thinking about Muslim women and Muslim men.
On a universal plane, man's belief in his prospective immortality through saviorism has been breached by a theory of knowledge where he cannot accept saviorism; so he becomes responsible for himself […]
Word Forms
- saviourism
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include salvationism, redemptionist, autosoterism, providentialist, reformationism, agapism.
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