Word: fervorous
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Your "New Empire of Faith" accurately reflects the religious fervor rejuvenating itself all over America, the exception being here in the Bible Belt. It's not new, 'cause it never left...
...words were sung with a fervor that touched everyone in the hall. The audience ignited with applause. Andrae Crouch and the Disciples, 1977's top gospel group, had triumphed in the "gladiator school"-the inmates' name for Soledad Prison-on the threshold of the new year...
...minutes over the past decade. At Darien's St. Paul's Episcopal, though, Sunday attendance has climbed from 200 to 1,200 in less than five years. Observes the Rev. Everett ("Terry") Fullam, 47, a Harvard Ph.D. who is mainly responsible for infusing the local commuter set with Pentecostal fervor: "The church has functioned subnormally for so long that when it becomes normal, it seems abnormal...
...World, a personal, biblical faith was an American characteristic from the start. The early settlers' fervor was reactivated in the 18th century by Jonathan Edwards and Anglican George Whitefield, America's first mass revivalist. When Whitefield hit Philadelphia in 1739, Freethinker Ben Franklin figured his open-air congregation at 30,000 and marveled: "It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. It seemed as if all the world were growing religious." But the social consequences of religious zeal were more dramatic during the "Second Awakening," which took place more than half a century...
...political tradition holds that the reformers can never reconcile their ideological differences or their moralistic fervor to form a practical and electable political coalition. Cambridge Convention '77, a slate of progressives committed to support a platform of specific reforms, would like to prove the skeptics wrong...