Saviorism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Belief in a savior. uncountable
"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 […]"
- 2 A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them. uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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 […]"
Etymology
From savior + -ism.
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