religious revival
Spiritual fervor returns
A religious revival is a period of renewed spiritual fervor within a community or movement, often marked by intense worship, conversions, and recommitment to faith.
Revivals typically emerge when believers perceive spiritual decline and seek restoration: The Great Awakening was an 18th-century religious revival that swept the American colonies.
Revival meetings feature emotional preaching aimed at awakening the unconverted.
- Second Great AwakeningAntebellum Protestant revival movement
- camp meetingOutdoor religious assembly
- revivalismMovement rekindling religious passion
- spiritual awakeningProfound inner consciousness shift
- fire and brimstoneWrathful divine punishment imagery
altar calls · come to Jesus · evangelism · Holy Spirit · Charles Finney · prayer · salvation · born again · sawdust trail · missionary work · hymn singing · sermon · laying on hands · prayer meetings · sawdust · grace · abolitionism · faith
- American ReligionChristianity, Catholic, Catholics, Baptist, Baptists
- revivalsrevivalism, resurgence, reawakening, rejuvenation, revitalization
- Victorian reformpoor laws, poorhouse, temperance movement, abolitionists, child labor
- Russian IslamTatars, Dagestan, Chechnya, Chechens, Soviet collapse
- Russian OrthodoxyRussian Orthodoxy, Orthodox icons, spiritual elders, holy fool, Church Slavonic
- Singh Sabha
religious revivalapostasy
Renunciation of former beliefs
deconversion · falling away · backsliding · dechristianization · faithlessness
religious revivalsecularization
Religion losing social significance
secular humanism · anticlericalism · disenchantment · irreligion · modernization