What does self-deliverance mean?
What I don't get is, self-deliverance means different depending on a context used.
I mainly hear the word in music but not sure what it means.
meaning-in-context
What does self-deliverance mean?
What I don't get is, self-deliverance means different depending on a context used.
I mainly hear the word in music but not sure what it means.
Best Answer
At its origin, "self-deliverance" was mainly used in a religious context, when you "pray yourself out of" (sins, addiction, fear, ...), as a form of spiritual warfare.
To illustrate that, see deliverance-music.org, which has some detailed explanations on self-deliverance, as well as some "deliverance musics".
But dictionary.com refers to it as just one word:
And that comes from the book "Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying".
So that expression might have a grimmer meaning today that it had before 1990.