What Is Salvation?

The word salvation is being used mainly in Christianity to explain the meaning of redemption. And in the act of salvation you get preserved from any harm or any kind of unpleasantness and it has its other figurative uses also. When you perform the act of salvation to somebody or a group of people, you are able to save some bad situation from happening.  
      
You can often hear the use of the word when a country is in economic crisis and some act was performed that saved the country from going bankrupt. Then you can say that the act worked as a salvation for the country and come to rescue the country. In recent years the term is being frequently used to say that liberalization has worked as a salvation to the economy of a number of countries.