spiritual revival
Religious fervor renewed
Spiritual revival is a period of renewed religious fervor and commitment within a community or movement.
The term implies something dormant being reawakened—faith that had grown stale or nominal becoming vital again.
Revivals often feature emotional worship, mass conversions, and calls to return to foundational beliefs: The tent meetings sparked a spiritual revival across the region.
In broader use, spiritual revival can describe any rekindling of inner life or purpose.
- evangelismPromoting beliefs to others
- sanctificationMaking someone or something sacred
- revivalismMovement rekindling religious passion
- prayerAddress to deity
- Great AwakeningColonial American spiritual movement
Billy Graham · fire and brimstone · mysticism · reformation · born again · come to Jesus · repentance · quickening · faith · conviction · camp meeting · hope · renewal · Pentecostalism · laying on hands · holiness · discipleship · communal gatherings
- Pietist movementsMoravians
- missionsmissionary work, foreign missions, mission trips, mission work, mission stations
- Charismatic Christianityspeaking in tongues, glossolalia, tongues, charismatic worship, manifestations
- FranciscansSaint Francis, friars, St. Francis, friar, Francis of Assisi
- Indian Reformsocial reform
- Jewish Messiahmessiah, anointed one, redeemer, anointed king, future king
spiritual revivalspiritual death
Eternal separation from God
apostasy · secularization · deconversion · backsliding · falling away
spiritual revivalsecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
political revolution · social reform · scientific revolution · secularization · materialism
spiritual revivalmoral decline
Erosion of ethical standards
cultural decay · decadence · societal collapse · hedonism · nihilism