Word: revivalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negroes when he went before 5,000 delegates to the African Methodist Episcopal Church's quadrennial session. Applause interrupted his speech 66 times as Humphrey promised to formulate "a new and complete national commitment to human rights." The hall resounded with the fervent cries of an old-time revivalist meeting and Humphrev, the old political evangelist, joined the crowd in sineine We Shall Overcome...
...common beliefs ever since their beginnings in the 18th century. The Methodist movement was founded in England by John Wesley, a highway preacher who challenged the antireligious skepticism of the Enlightenment by stressing austere living and personal salvation. The precursors of the Evangelical United Brethren sprang from a similar revivalist movement in Germany, and were popularly called "German Methodists." Transplanted to colonial America by early European immigrants, the two movements remained on friendly terms, their preachers often collaborating in frontier revival meetings. Merger had been proposed twice before but had been defeated by language and cultural differences...
...ALVIN AILEY, 37, is a Turned-On with a streak of the revivalist...
...made notable recent gains among urban Negroes and Puer to Ricans, and has even taken root on U.S. college campuses. For those who have received the gift of speaking in tongues, it can be an ecstatic occurrence. Glossolalia usually happens at the climax of a Pentecostal service, when the revivalist "lays on hands"-places his hand on the head of a believer, who frequently enters a trance-like state, begins to utter a stream of glottal syllables that Pentecostalists regard as prophetic speech...
...setting smacked more of a revivalist rally than a political convention. Seated primly on folding chairs in the recreation room of the Young Women's Christian Association head quarters in Detroit, under banners reading DRY CRUSADERS and CONSERVATIVE-AMERICAN-CHRISTIAN, were some 50 delegates of the Prohibition Party. When a speaker really got warmed up, the delegates, with a rustling of shawls, erupted in lusty choruses of "Amen!" For pep songs, they turned to the New Day Temperance Songs pamphlet. For hardhitting oratory, they had Michigan Fundamentalist Charles Ewing, who deplored life under the Great Society as "a syncopated...