religious awakening
Faith suddenly found
A religious awakening is a profound spiritual experience in which someone discovers or rediscovers religious faith, often marked by intense emotion and a sense of transformation.
The term also describes periods when religious fervor sweeps through a population: The Great Awakening transformed colonial America.
Personal awakenings may follow crisis, contemplation, or sudden revelation: After her religious awakening, she gave up drinking and started attending church.
- epiphanySudden profound insight
- road to DamascusSudden profound conversion
- crossPass from side to side
- ecstasyOverwhelming intense delight
- moral reformEffort to improve conduct
Reformation · conversion · spiritual rebirth · repentance · fervor · Pentecostalism · speaking in tongues · holy spirit · transcendence · tears · enlightenment · zeal · mysticism · inner light · trembling · tent revival · revelation · come to Jesus
- life eventswedding, funeral, graduation, birthday party, anniversary
- faith storiesconversion story, personal testimony, spiritual journey, salvation story, conversion experience
- MethodismWesley, Methodist Church, Methodist, United Methodist Church, Methodism
- PietismMoravians, Moravian, piety, new birth, spiritual rebirth
religious awakeningdeconversion
Abandoning religious belief
apostasy · spiritual death · disillusionment · falling away · lapsing
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