revival meeting
noun
: a meeting or series of meetings led by a preacher to make people interested in a Christian religion
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In 2019, filmmakers visit an Alabama prison to film a revival meeting.
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Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2025
In 2019, the filmmakers visit an Alabama prison to film a revival meeting.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
Pentecostal revival meeting lights and condominium-sale advertisements illuminate the city, leaving a ruddy glow along the highway.
—Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
But the engine of the whole enterprise was Fuller’s intensity and charisma, which prompted responses more akin to those at a revival meeting.
—James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Aimee was struck by the potential of the technology, how a single radio broadcast could reach significantly more souls than even a weeklong revival meeting.
—Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2025
These comics reveal no doubts about their own level of indulgence, and their performance takes on the feel of a revival meeting, existing to excuse and reinforce the audience’s appetites.
—John Roy, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
The atmosphere was part revival meeting, part fund-raiser, and part family reunion.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
The solution was the revival meeting, which might last days or weeks, a spiritual fermata, a Béla Tarr film like no other, in which attendees would not be outwardly coerced but would self-coerce under the influence of collective prayer that went on and on.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
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Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 4 Oct. 2025
In 2019, the filmmakers visit an Alabama prison to film a revival meeting.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
Pentecostal revival meeting lights and condominium-sale advertisements illuminate the city, leaving a ruddy glow along the highway.
—Edna Bonhomme, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
But the engine of the whole enterprise was Fuller’s intensity and charisma, which prompted responses more akin to those at a revival meeting.
—James Marcus, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Aimee was struck by the potential of the technology, how a single radio broadcast could reach significantly more souls than even a weeklong revival meeting.
—Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2025
These comics reveal no doubts about their own level of indulgence, and their performance takes on the feel of a revival meeting, existing to excuse and reinforce the audience’s appetites.
—John Roy, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2025
The atmosphere was part revival meeting, part fund-raiser, and part family reunion.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
The solution was the revival meeting, which might last days or weeks, a spiritual fermata, a Béla Tarr film like no other, in which attendees would not be outwardly coerced but would self-coerce under the influence of collective prayer that went on and on.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
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