1) Religious order 2) Religious sect 3) Saktism 4) Sect 1) Saktism 
The religious scholar C. MacKenzie Brown explains that Shaktism `clearly insists that, of the two genders, the feminine represents the dominant power in the universe. Yet both genders must be included in the ultimate if it is truly ultimate. The masculine and the feminine are aspects of the divine, transcendent reality, which goes beyond but stil....
worship of the Hindu supreme goddess, Shakti (Sanskrit: `Power,` or `Energy`). Shaktism is, together with Vaiavism and aivism, one of the major forms ... [5 related articles]
[n] - a Hindu sect worshiping Shakti 2. [n] - worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva
Saktism noun worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva