English Dictionary

saviorism

noun

Belief in a savior. / (sociology) A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them.

Many people turn to saviorism in times of crisis, hoping for someone to save them.

意味（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 […]

意味（2）

(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.