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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But the engine of the whole enterprise was Fuller’s intensity and charisma, which prompted responses more akin to those at a revival meeting.
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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
The documentary project began with an invitation to the filmmakers to attend an open-air barbecue and revival meeting held annually at some Alabama state prisons, including the Easterling Correctional Facility in Clio.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Jan. 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
At Calabash, the combination of sun, sea and literature proves a heady, intoxicating mix — part literary party and part revival meeting.
—Anderson Tepper, New York Times, 8 June 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert to notify doctors and health officials that a person who contracted measles attended the Asbury revival meeting in Kentucky last month.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2023
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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
The documentary project began with an invitation to the filmmakers to attend an open-air barbecue and revival meeting held annually at some Alabama state prisons, including the Easterling Correctional Facility in Clio.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Jan. 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
At Calabash, the combination of sun, sea and literature proves a heady, intoxicating mix — part literary party and part revival meeting.
—Anderson Tepper, New York Times, 8 June 2023
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert to notify doctors and health officials that a person who contracted measles attended the Asbury revival meeting in Kentucky last month.
—Landon Mion, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2023
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