[ noun ] an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith <noun.cognition>
Revivalism \Re*viv"al*ism\, n. The spirit of religious revivals; the methods of revivalists.
Turkey's western middle class is no longer as fearful as it once of being swamped in a tide of religious revivalism. 'Fundamentalism has peaked in this country,' says one Istanbul professor confidently. It is, nonetheless, still a powerful force.
As a party laying claim to ideals of national resurgence, the BJP has a relatively clean reputation. As Hindu revivalism has spread, so it has drawn recruits from castes, classes and regions that once spurned it.