revivalism

revivalism

English

Etymology

revival +‎ -ism

Noun

revivalism (countable and uncountable, plural revivalisms)

1. Advocacy for the revival of a former practice, custom, etc.

   Art Deco revivalism

2. Spiritual fervour of or for a religious revival.
   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., pp. 57–58]:

     Neither the Revivalism that assails a boy at about the age of fifteen, nor the skepticism that meets him five years later, could sway him from his allegiance to the church into which he had been born.