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Definition of Saktism
1. Noun. A Hindu sect worshiping Shakti.
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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saktism
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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