religious revivals
Spiritual renewal movements
Religious revivals are periods of renewed spiritual fervor within a faith community, typically marked by intense prayer meetings, emotional conversions, and calls to return to fundamental beliefs.
In American history, the term often refers to specific movements like the Great Awakenings—waves of Protestant enthusiasm that reshaped the religious landscape.
Revivals can be local events with traveling preachers or broader cultural phenomena: The tent revival drew hundreds from surrounding counties.
The word carries connotations of both genuine spiritual renewal and theatrical excess.
- EschatologyStudy of ultimate destiny
- prayer meetingGathering for communal devotion
- GraceName or honorific
- fire and brimstoneWrathful divine punishment imagery
- Great AwakeningColonial American spiritual movement
Christian poetry · sawdust trail · Charles Finney · Second Great Awakening · Billy Graham · camp meeting · altar call · come to Jesus · born again · Pentecostalism · speaking in tongues · spirit filled · Second Great Awakening
- AdventismSeventh-day Adventist, Adventists, second coming, Sabbath school, blessed hope
- Protestant missionsmissionary work, mission churches, mission schools, missionary societies, missionary schools
religious revivalssecularization
Religion losing social significance
apostasy · deconversion · falling away · disenchantment · backsliding
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