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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
revivalism
noun
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▪ Here is the stuff of revivalism, holiness movements, tight church membership requirements and, taken to extremes, exclusive cults.
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Revivalism

Revivalism \Re*viv"al*ism\, n. The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.

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revivalism

n. The spiritual fervour of a religious revival

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revivalism

n. an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith

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Revivalism (architecture)

Revivalism in architecture is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.

Modern-day revival styles can be summarized within New Classical Architecture, and sometimes under the umbrella term traditional architecture.

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William Sargant, an eminent English neuropsychiatrist, has pointed out the similarity of the techniques used in brainwashing with the results obtained by Methodist and Fundamentalist revivalism in the past and present, by snake-handling cults in the southern United States, by voodoo ceremonies in Haiti, and by ecstatic religious rituals celebrated all over the world.