saviorism
noun/ˈseɪvjəɹɪzm/
Etymology From savior + -ism.
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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 […]2014, Joseph Isaac Abrahams, Terra Incognita: A Psychoanalyst Explores the Human Soul, page 154:
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Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, Sociology 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.2016, Heather Ashley Hayes, Violent Subjects and Rhetorical Cartography in the Age of the Terror Wars:
- Related terms
- white saviorism