Meaning of saviorism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Belief in a savior.
   uncountable
2. A worldview according to which some people are saviors and others need to be saved by them.
   uncountable

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 […]”

“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.”

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