saviorism

noun
/ˈseɪvjəɹɪzm/

Etymology

From savior + -ism.

  1. derived from salvātor
  2. derived from sauveour
  3. inherited from saveour
  4. suffixed as saviorism — “savior + ism

Definitions

  1. Belief in a savior.

    • 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…

    A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for saviorism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA