noun
definition
Advocacy for the revival of a former practice, custom, etc.
example
Art Deco revivalism
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Spiritual fervour of or for a religious revival.
Examples of revivalism in a Sentence
It is indeed true that to thousands the hope of acquiring spiritual merit must have been a great motive; it is also true, as the records of crusading sermons show, that there was a strong element of "revivalism" in the Crusades, and that thousands were hurried into taking the cross by a gust of that uncontrollable enthusiasm which is excited by revivalist meetings to-day.
There were, however, some ardent spirits who continued to work along the old lines and whose watchword was revivalism, and out of their efforts came the Bible Christian, the Independent Methodist and the Primitive Methodist denominations.
Rationality of religious Identity It was said earlier that what apparently unites multiculturalism and religious revivalism is their identification of religion with identity.
This has been true of Islamic revivalism over the last century.
His mother and siblings got caught up in evangelical revivalism to which Ibsen was intractably hostile.
Rationality of Religious Identity It was said earlier that what apparently unites multiculturalism and religious revivalism is their identification of religion with identity.
His current research concerns the history of Christian revivalism in colonial eastern Africa.
Napoleon III spent some time here also and the castle provided an excellent example of the product of gothic revivalism in the nineteenth century.