revivals
Old things returning
Revivals is the plural of revival—instances of bringing something back to life or prominence.
Religious revivals are gatherings meant to reawaken faith: tent revivals, the Great Awakening revivals.
Cultural revivals restore interest in neglected styles or practices: the folk music revival, Gothic Revival architecture.
Theater revivals are new productions of older plays or musicals: Broadway revivals of classic shows.
Return after dormancy
- reboundReturn after deflection
- returnGo back again
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- renaissancePeriod of renewed vitality
reawakening · rejuvenation · rebirth · reemergence · reinvigoration · revitalization · restoration · reclamation
Evoking recent past
- vintageQuality from past eras
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- throwbackReturn to ancestral type
- renaissancePeriod of renewed vitality
resurgence · comeback · classic · heritage · retrospective · reissue · remaster · remake
Return to consciousness
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- conversionAct of changing states
redemption · salvation · repentance · testimony · worship · prayer · faith · congregation
Staged or filmed works
- restagingReviving a performance anew
- remountingClimbing back onto something
- repertoryCollection of prepared works
- BroadwayManhattan theatrical district
playbill · troupe · audition · rehearsal · stagecraft · dramaturgy · matinee · musical
Returning something to condition
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- renovationRestoring to good condition
- historicOf lasting significance
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
landmark · Victorian · gentrification · brownstone · facade · conservation · craftsmanship · authenticity
resurgence
Return after dormancy
renaissance · reawakening · rejuvenation · rebirth · reemergence · reinvigoration · revitalization · restoration · reclamation · turnaround
retro
Evoking recent past
renaissance · resurgence · comeback · classic · heritage · retrospective · reissue · remaster · remake · reboot
awakening
Return to consciousness
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
- preachingDelivering moral discourse
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
conversion · redemption · salvation · repentance · testimony · worship · prayer · faith · congregation · sermon
productions
Staged or filmed works
- restagingReviving a performance anew
- remountingClimbing back onto something
- repertoryCollection of prepared works
Broadway · playbill · troupe · audition · rehearsal · stagecraft · dramaturgy · matinee · musical · Sondheim
restoration
Returning something to condition
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- renovationRestoring to good condition
- historicOf lasting significance
heritage · landmark · Victorian · gentrification · brownstone · facade · conservation · craftsmanship · authenticity
- church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
- Baptist ChurchSouthern Baptist, First Baptist, adult baptism, baptistry, immersion
- Black ChurchBaptist church, gospel choir, pastor, preacher, deacons
- Modern ChristianityVatican II, ecumenism, evangelicalism, liberation theology, Billy Graham
- Religious ReformProtestant Reformation, Vatican II, Great Awakening, Puritanism, Methodism
- African PentecostalismPentecostalism, speaking in tongues, deliverance, born again, spiritual warfare
revivalsdeaths
Permanent cessations of life
killings · extinctions · endings · demises · terminations
revivalsdeclines
Refuses or diminishes
downturns · downfalls · deteriorations · recessions · slumps
revivalsdisappearances
Acts of becoming gone
extinctions · oblivions · obscurities · forgettings · abandonments
- tent revivalOutdoor religious gathering under canvas
- spiritual revivalRenewed religious fervor
- religious revivalRenewed collective spiritual fervor
- cultural revivalRestoration of heritage practices
- great revival
- revival meetingsPublic religious renewal gatherings