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revivalism

a movement, esp an evangelical Christian one, that seeks to reawaken faith
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The book is endorsed by highly respected Revivalist leaders, Pentecostal Pastors and lay leaders, as destined to become "a textbook that will shape the course of world history." Other Theologians and Denominational pastors will find Jansen's writing insightful as a valuable resource for preparing a new generation committed to join in the release of the "fresh new sound of heaven" and the lighting revival fires around the world.
The decline of the Communist Party and the failed Progressive presidential campaign of Henry Wallace in 1948 are presented as moments of sobering adversity, contrasted with the optimism and hope that had characterized the revivalists' efforts during the war years.
He has succeeded undeniably in embedding revivalists' testimonies within the contentious and dynamic sociopolitical world of late colonial East Africa.
Therefore, we opt for Gyekye's (1997) characterisation of the two opposing groups of scholars as cultural revivalists, and cultural anti-revivalist.
The revivalists' iconoclasm in that sense resembles so-called cargo movements throughout Oceania, both in how they anticipate rupture as an all-encompassing horizon of the self, but also how they self-consciously appropriate the terms of modernity and tradition of imperial history to realise this.
"Violinist, composer, filmmaker, writer, photographer and playwright Yale Strom was a pioneer among revivalists in conducting extensive field research in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans among the Jewish and Rom communities since 1981.
At first glance, it looks like any number of eight-bit, side-scrolling shooter revivalists we've seen since the start of the indie boom.
For many revivalists this allegiance and journey were defined in vernacular versions of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, pervasive throughout eastern Africa in the early part of the twentieth century.
However, when it comes to stories that are told to him by Taino revivalists, his consistent reaction is to accept them at face value with little or no reservation.
By including a chapter on such western swing revivalists as Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel and Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys--Benson originally from Philadelphia, and Crow originally from Oklahoma City--Stimeling reinforces the argument that Austin's progressive country is more of a movement than a musical style.
Clearly written and well-documented, it focuses on popular music such as the 1950s folk revivalists, politically charged rock and folk of the 1960s and 70s, and also punk, new wave, riot grrl, and hip hop.