Definition of Saktism

1. Noun. A Hindu sect worshiping Shakti.

Exact synonyms: Shaktism
Group relationships: Hindooism, Hinduism
Generic synonyms: Religious Order, Religious Sect, Sect
Member holonyms: Shaktist
Derivative terms: Shaktist, Shaktist

2. Noun. Worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva.
Exact synonyms: Shaktism
Generic synonyms: Hindooism, Hinduism
Derivative terms: Shaktist, Shaktist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saktism

Saka
Sakaguchi reaction
Sakai
Sakartvelo
Sakas
Sakha
Sakha Republic
Sakhalin
Sakharov
Sakkara
Sakkaras
Sakta
Saktas
Sakti
Saktism (current term)
Sakurai
Sakurai-Lisch nodule
Sakyamuni
Sal
Saladin
Salado
Saladoes
Salados
Salafast Group for Call and Combat
Salafi
Salafi Christian
Salafi movement
Salafism
Salafist Group

Literary usage of Saktism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Religious Thought and Life in India: An Account of the Religions of the by Monier Monier-Williams (1885)
"Saktism, or Goddess-worship. Saktism in the simplest acceptation of the term is the worship of power or force (Sanskrit ..."

2. Census of India, 1901 by India Census Commissioner, Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1902)
"In Upper Assam, the distinctions between Saktism and Vaishnavism are not very clearly marked, and a native gentleman in Sibsagar goes so far as to assert ..."

3. What Is Hinduism?: Modern Adventures Into a Profound Global Faith by Editors of Hinduism Today, Hinduism Today Magazine Editors, From the Editors of Hinduism Today (2007)
"Four major expressions of Saktism are evident today: folk-shamanism, yoga, ... There are many varieties of folk Saktism gravitating around various forms of ..."

4. Dancing With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003)
"Certain sects within Saktism undertake "left-hand" tantric rites, consciously using the world of form to transmute and eventually transcend that world. ..."

5. Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003)
"SLOKA 8 Saktism reveres the Supreme as the Divine Mother, Sakti or Devi, ... Shamanic Saktism employs magic, trance mediumship, firewalking and animal ..."

6. Religious Thought and Life in India: An Account of the Religions of the by Monier Monier-Williams (1885)
"Saktism, or Goddess-worship. Saktism in the simplest acceptation of the term is the worship of power or force (Sanskrit ..."

7. Census of India, 1901 by India Census Commissioner, Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1902)
"In Upper Assam, the distinctions between Saktism and Vaishnavism are not very clearly marked, and a native gentleman in Sibsagar goes so far as to assert ..."

8. What Is Hinduism?: Modern Adventures Into a Profound Global Faith by Editors of Hinduism Today, Hinduism Today Magazine Editors, From the Editors of Hinduism Today (2007)
"Four major expressions of Saktism are evident today: folk-shamanism, yoga, ... There are many varieties of folk Saktism gravitating around various forms of ..."

9. Dancing With Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003)
"Certain sects within Saktism undertake "left-hand" tantric rites, consciously using the world of form to transmute and eventually transcend that world. ..."

10. Dancing with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Catechism by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (2003)
"SLOKA 8 Saktism reveres the Supreme as the Divine Mother, Sakti or Devi, ... Shamanic Saktism employs magic, trance mediumship, firewalking and animal ..."

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