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Definition of Shivaism

1. Noun. A Hindu sect worshiping Shiva.

2. Noun. Worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon.

Definition of Shivaism

1. Noun. (alternative form of Shaivism) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shivaism

Shirburnian Shirburnians Shirer Shirgah Shirime Shirl Shirley Shirley Temple Shirley Temple Black Shirley sauce

Shirodkar's operation Shirodkar operation Shirshak Shiva Shivaism Shivaist Shivaists Shivite Shivites Shizuoka

Shloime Shlomo Shoah Shoahs Shockley Sholem Asch Sholom Asch Shona Shone's anomaly

Literary usage of Shivaism

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

1. The History of Religions by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1918)
"By the sixth century AD there were Shiva sects in south India and by the ninth there were two schools of shivaism in Kashmir. Probably most of the modern ..."

2. The History of Religions by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1918)
"By the sixth century AD there were Shiva sects in south India and by the ninth there were two schools of shivaism in Kashmir. Probably most of the modern ..."

3. The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian by James Oswald Dykes, James Stuart Candlish, Hugh Sinclair Paterson, Joseph Samuel Exell (1880)
"And so it was that shivaism, or the doctrine that Shiva was the true personal God and ... But neither could shivaism satisfy. For man craves a God who is ..."

4. Researches Into the Nature and Affinity of Ancient and Hindu Mythology by Vans Kennedy (1831)
"... and shivaism. Some singular misapprehension, also, seems to prevail with respect to the character and worship of Shiva ; for it is assumed that as this ..."

5. Buddhism: Its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects. In Three Lectures by Ernest John Eitel (1873)
"With the rise of the Tantra school ideas borrowed from shivaism and mixed ... shivaism, which ascribes to Shiva a threefold body, and Brahminism with its ..."

6. Christianity before Christ; or, Prototypes of our faith and culture by Charles John Stone (1885)
"It has been asserted that shivaism as well as ... But the evidence seems to demonstrate that Buddhism arose out of Brahminism and shivaism. ..."

7. Christianity Before Christ: Or, Prototypes of Our Faith and Culture by Charles John Stone (1885)
"It has been asserted that shivaism as well as ... But the evidence seems to demonstrate that Buddhism arose out of Brahminism and shivaism. ..."

8. Buddhism: Its Historical, Theoretical and Popular Aspects. In Three Lectures by Ernest John Eitel (1884)
"shivaism also had its influenca upon the formation of the dogma in question, ... shivaism especially promoted ..."

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