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  • With a new blog called the Revivalist recently launched to document the emerging jazz scene, as well as a partnership with the online hip-hop Web site Okayplayer, Ms. Stabile and the eight-person Revive team are looking for new ways to make jazz seem young again.

    Hip-Hop, R Seve Chambers 2011

  • England suffered in those summer days a shock which thrilled to its heart and brain with an enormous emotion such as a man who has been careless of truth and virtue experiences at a "Revivalist" meeting or at a Catholic mission when some passionate preacher breaks the hard crust of his carelessness and convinces him that death and the judgment are very near, and that all the rottenness of his being will be tested in the furnace of a spiritual agony.

    The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

  • Revivalist ministers in this Awakening were, observed historian Gordon Wood, “eager to promote the idea of equality that became so important in the Revolution” and “became deeply involved in reform movements of the early Republic.”

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • Revivalist movements express the collective power of human yearning as old claims on the spirit erode.

    Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future 2010

  • "Solitude" says our great Revivalist, "makes the head clearer and heart better."

    Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,March 11, 1857 2008

  • THE TRUTH -- as always -- has been the first victim in the battle of opposing ideologies with the anti-Chavistas claiming that they, and they alone, are the exclusive interpreters of what is well and good; and the pro-Chavistas claiming exactly the same with the full force of Revivalist rhetoric, and then some!

    Honor? Really? Well that's a subject of another editorial... 2008

  • Or if a party calling itself "Confederate Revivalist" came to power somewhere in the American South?

    MSM's knee-jerk reporting: Nepal as an example Sun Bin 2008

  • Cowdrey has a terrific novel called CRUX, and he has a new novella called "The Revivalist" coming out in the March 2006 issue of F&SF.

    REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #22 edited by Gardner Dozois 2005

  • But check out the rest of the site as well, including the Revivalist series!

    Henry Root meets Karl Popper 2005

  • Revivalist culture was in full swing in the 18th-19th century and, shout out to Stephen who quoted mine earlier, George Whitefield preached about Matthew 5:34 about the heinous sin of profane cursing and swearing.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » McCain’s Interesting Reading of the Constitution: 2007

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