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What does revivalism mean?

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Noun
  1. Advocacy for the revival of a former practice, custom, etc.
  2. Spiritual fervour of or for a religious revival.
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The growth of revivalism as a collective phenomenon in recent decades might also be seen in relation to more general reactions against nostalgia.
Indeed, in the colonial period, countershifts, with various forms of revivalism of the Shakti cult, were observed.
Irish revivalism, an example of linguistic nationalism, arrived only when the language was already in grave peril.
Its class meetings, love feasts, and camp meetings were major engines of revivalism.
In a larger practical sense, however, evangelical revivalism shared basically Unitarian assumptions about the moral autonomy of children.
Rather, hers was a revivalism that could use indigenous culture, especially the Irish language, to expose the retrograde tendencies that persisted within Irish society.

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