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Definition of Shaktism
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.
Definition of Shaktism
1. Noun. A branch of Hinduism that focuses on the worship of Shakti as a supreme goddess. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shaktism
Literary usage of Shaktism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"shaktism:Shakti is an active, immanent Being, separate from a quiescent and remote
... shaktism: The spiritual practices in shaktism are similar to those in ..."
2. Hinduism in Europe and America by Elizabeth Armstrong Reed (1914)
"1 shaktism, [says Williams], is devotion to the wives of Shiva as impersonations
of the forces of nature in female form. ... It might be expected that a ..."
3. India and Its Faiths: A Traveler's Record by James Bissett Pratt (1915)
"Her cult is commonly known as "shaktism," for it is not so much the cult of a
personal deity as ... In one sense all the goddesses are involved in shaktism, ..."
4. Weaver's Wisdom: Ancient Precepts for a Perfect Life : an American English by Tiruvaḷḷuvar, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1999)
"It is a family of myriad faiths with four primary denominations: Saivism,
Vaishnavism, shaktism and ..."
5. Census of India, 1901 by India Census Commissioner, Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1902)
"When shaktism is spoken of it usually means the worship of Devi, that is of the
Shakti of Shiva. She has endless forms ranging from the peaceful one of ..."
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