evangelical revival
Mass conversion movement
An evangelical revival is a period of intensified religious fervor within Protestant Christianity, typically marked by mass gatherings, emotional preaching, and numerous conversions.
Revivals aim to reawaken faith among believers and bring new converts to Christianity: The Great Awakening was an evangelical revival that swept colonial America.
The term can describe both historical movements and contemporary efforts to renew religious commitment.
- tent meetingsOutdoor religious gatherings
- camp meetingOutdoor religious assembly
- Great AwakeningColonial American spiritual movement
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
altar calls · fire and brimstone · come to Jesus · repentance · Holy Spirit · temperance movement · hymn singing · conversion · sanctification · prayer gatherings · justification · missionary work · born again · testimonies · George Whitefield · grace · sawdust trail · social justice initiatives
- British ChristianityChurch of England, Methodism, Methodists, Anglicanism, dissenters
- Modern Religionevangelicalism, fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, New Age, Scientology
- revivalsresurgence, reawakening, rejuvenation, revitalization, regeneration
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- Anglican ChurchAnglicanism, bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury, Church of England, parish
- MethodismWesley, Methodist Church, Methodist, United Methodist Church, Methodism
evangelical revivalquiet contemplation
silent meditation · Quaker meeting · private devotion · going through the motions
evangelical revivalsecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
secularization · anticlericalism · irreligion · godlessness · disenchantment
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