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	Revival of Religious Terrorism Begs for Broader U.S. Policy
		Although religious terrorists committed only 25 percent of the recorded international terrorist incidents in 1995, their acts were responsible for 58 percent of the terrorist-related fatalities recorded that year.
		The reasons why religious terrorism results in so many more deaths than secular terrorism may be found in the radically different value systems, mechanisms of legitimization and justification, concepts of morality, and worldviews embraced by the religious terrorist.
		For the religious terrorist, violence is first and foremost a sacramental act or divine duty executed in response to some theological demand or imperative.
	www.rand.org /publications/randreview/issues/rr.winter98.9/methods.html (3143 words)

	religious revival - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Revival campaigns in the postwar period, which should be distinguished from those of practitioners of faith healing, have been conducted by B. Fay Mills, Sam Jones, J. Wilbur Chapman, R. Torrey, Billy Sunday, Gipsy Smith, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Billy Graham.
		Religious revival in the Roman Catholic Church and the autochthony-allochthony conflict in Cameroon.
		Religious revival as reaction to the hegemonization of power in Siberia in the 1920s to 1940s.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-revival.html (863 words)

	Dr. Soroush
		The idea is woven into the warp and woof of our people’s religious lives; whether today, when we claim to have a religious and Islamic state, or before the revolution, when the state was not religious and the ulema and religious leaders sat in their own places in strength and had followers and adherents.
		Religious history is a history that is only examined because and to the extent that God is manifested within it and other historical issues remain entirely outside the sphere of research and investigation.
		The religious reading of history and the concept of the saviour considers the appearance of the saviour to be a great religious venture; not a political or theological venture.
	www.drsoroush.com /English/By_DrSoroush/E-CMB-TheSaviourAndReligiousRevival.html (5815 words)

	Revival- No. 1 by Charles G. Finney from "The Oberlin Evangelist"
		A revival of religion is needed when brotherly love is so low, and so nearly extinct, that it is not natural for Christians to call each other brethren; when, in fact, it seems to them silly, and to sound like cant, to call a Christian brother, Brother.
		A revival of religion is needed, when, as a consequence of their declension, Christians are involved in doubt in regard to their religious state.
		A revival of religion is very much needed, when, as a consequence of the backsliding of the church, the preaching of the word of God is powerless.
	www.whatsaiththescripture.com /Voice/Oberlin_1861/OE1861.Revival.1.html (4242 words)

	Revivalism
		Revivalism is a predominantly North American Protestant phenomenon in which itinerant preachers exhort their hearers to accept forgiveness of personal sin through faith in Jesus Christ and to commit themselves to spiritual self discipline and religious exercises such as prayer, Bible reading, and church support.
		Revivalism in America has been in reaction to a perceived overemphasis by the major denominations on ritual, cultural accommodation, and doctrinal or ideological correctness at the expense of personal religious experience.
		Although most of the revivalism of the time was carried on in the local churches and camp meetings of the rapidly growing Baptist and methodist denominations, Moody's leadership was the stimulus which encouraged the continued use of revivalistic methods in churches not as strongly committed to them.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/revivali.htm (2397 words)

	revival, religious. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		renewal of attention to religious faith and service in a church or community, usually following a period of comparative inactivity and frequently marked by intense fervor.
		But revivals, so called, began (c.1737) in Europe with the evangelical awakening in England under John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield.
		Revival campaigns in the postwar period, which should be distinguished from those of practitioners of faith healing, have been conducted by B. Fay Mills, Sam Jones, J. Wilbur Chapman, R. Torrey, Billy Sunday, Gipsy Smith, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Billy Graham.
	www.bartleby.com /65/re/revival.html (443 words)

	Study the Welsh Revival of 1904 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is about the revival that preceeded that one by 40 years (God often does it that way).
		Revival In Belfast Revival In Belfast captures the passionate worship of Robin Mark and the Christian Fellowship Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
		Known for their strong cross community emphasis, it is a place where believers from all walks of faith are welcome and where grace and mercy abound in the midst of the troubles of Northern Ireland.
	www.sendrevival.com /history/welsh_revival (439 words)

	The Globalist \| Global Religion -- Africa’s Traditions and Religious Revival
		The various forms of religious revival that are so noteworthy today have to be considered in light of the long, historic engagement of the West in Africa.
		Ultimately, today’s religious revivals, despite their confusing forms at times, could then be described as reconfigurations of available resources for a successful life today.
		Hence, revivals of traditional religion should not be taken for a sign that Africa is peeling off several layers of development, as Western newspapers’ addiction to "Heart of Darkness" headlines imply.
	www.theglobalist.com /printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=4572 (1746 words)

	Campuses Are a Bellwether for Society's Religious Revival
		Conrad Cherry, a professor of religious studies and the head of the project, told participants in a conference last year at Princeton University that he and his colleagues have discovered a nascent religious revival.
		While college chaplains have noticed the explosion of new religious forms, few scholars have considered how demographic changes in the culture at large are affecting religious life at colleges and universities.
		Religious diversity may spark conversation not just in religion classrooms, but also in courses in literature, history, anthropology, sociology, journalism, and area studies.
	www.uga.edu /bahai/News/011698.html (1623 words)

	Bush Scheme Threatens Religious Revival
		Bush argues that religious organizations shouldn't be expected to alter their "religious character" when they accept federal funds.
		In addition, gay, religious and civil rights groups are fearful that tax money will go to churches that discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation or even to so-called "ex-gay" ministries.
		A truly religious program cannot "turn off" its spiritual message when a federal dollar is passing through its hands and turn it back on when the private contributions flow in.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/18/SC206945.DTL&type=printable (822 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1994): Chapter Four: The Second Great Awakening (13/13)
		In reaction to the secularism of the age, a religious revival spread westward in the first half of the 19th century.
		In the Appalachian region of Kentucky and Tennessee, the revival strengthened the Methodists and the Baptists, and spawned a new form of religious expression -- the camp meeting.
		It was this event that stamped the organized revival as the major mode of church expansion for denominations such as the Methodists and Baptists.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1994/ch4_p13.htm (746 words)

	Theology Today - Vol 31, No. 4 - January 1975 - EDITORIAL - The Post-War Religious Revival: Where Is It Going?
		As a portent, it was seized by the religious establishment, liberal and conservative alike, as a clue to a changing spiritual climate.
		With all the revival juices flowing, however, it moved beyond the fringes and began to be taken seriously by those not previously considered prime candidates-members of staid denominations, notably Roman Catholic and Episcopal.
		Theologically, the revival may have served as a catalyst for a further phase of the dialogue between liberals and conservatives, by making the faith something of a fad.
	theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jan1975/v31-4-editorial3.htm (2612 words)

	The Revival of Religious Thought
		As we established in the previous articles, the application of religious knowledge depends upon the time-space factors of the people in question.
		This is while the Imams themselves instructed their followers to seek knowledge and to follow something contrary to their rulings if it was better and more religiously correct than what they had themselves conveyed.
		The Mujtahideen are free to pass their verdicts without the fear of persecution from their own people, while the non-mujtahideen are free to follow them or to follow someone else.
	www.oneummah.net /encyclopedia/revival.html (1563 words)

	Second Great Awakening - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Second Great Awakening or the Great Revival was the second great religious revival in United States history and consisted of several kinds of activity, distinguished by locale and expression of religious commitment.
		Social activism inspired by the revival gave rise to abolition groups as well as the Society for the Promotion of Temperance, and began efforts to reform prisons and care for the handicapped and mentally ill. They believed in the perfectibility of people and were highly moralistic in their endeavors.
		Some of the larger religious movements with roots in the Second Great Awakening are the Churches of Christ, the Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Latter Day Saint movement, and the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Second_Great_Awakening (1046 words)

	Fundamentalism & Religious Revival
		Religious revival is actually a kind of double process in Turner's sense from the perspective of the participants in the religious revival.
		Religious orthodoxies are seen to be like Kuhnian paradigms because the constitute all-encompassing world views with set assumptions and theories of how the world operates.
		It is at this point where the actions of fundamentalist religious revival groups blur and begin to resemble the behavior of political activists.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Anthropology/publications/FUNDMNTALISM.htm (5511 words)

	THE WELSH RELIGIOUS REVIVAL, 1904-5 - Rev. J. Vyrnwy Morgan - 2.
		For its manifestations we need only refer to the profound regard of the Welsh for their religious ideals, to their enthusiasm for the educational advance of the masses of the people, to the demand for special legislation in temperance and education, and to the agitation for State recognition of aspirations that are distinctly Welsh.
		Moreover, the Welsh are as religious as the French are irreligious.
		They show that the rise of religious democracy in Wales was coincident with the rise and spread of the Revival wave, and they throw some sidelight on some of the customs that largely prevailed in Wales at one time, and that still exist in many parts.
	www.welshrevival.org /histories/morgan/02.htm (7543 words)

	Reformation, Revival and the Religious Right - Title
		Revival is a powerful, sovereign work of God's Spirit that rapidly expands His kingdom and revitalizes His church.
		As that revival's influence began to wane the Second Great Awakening brought new life to churches from the closing years of the eighteenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
		Though revival is a sovereign work and only God can send it, we are nevertheless responsible to heed His Word in doing what we can to seek it.
	www.founders.org /FJ26/editorial.html (3463 words)

	Foreign Affairs - The Great Revival: Understanding Religious "Fundamentalism" - David Aikman
		And the analysis of the distinctiveness of Sunni Islamic revivalism in contrast with the Shi'ite variety is genuinely useful.
		The larger issue raised by this effort to understand fundamentalism is the premise of the entire project: that such religious movements are "militant and highly focused antagonists of secularization." Many so-called fundamentalist movements are undoubtedly hostile to much of modernity.
		One of the difficulties of attempting to determine family resemblances among different types of fundamentalism is deciding whether what is at work is a political ideology garbed in religious terminology or a religious movement defining itself largely or entirely by religious values.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /20030701fareviewessay15416/david-aikman/the-great-revival-understanding-religious-fundamentalism.html (1980 words)

	Religious Revival in Civil War Armies
		Those chaplains and religious leaders that lived with the soldiers sent out a constant stream of letters to their home churches and church leadership, begging them to send “our best men--holy men” to assist in evangelizing and ministering to the troops.
		Although revivals took place throughout the war, it was during the late Fall of 1863 through the Spring and Summer of 1864 that what was subsequently called the “Great Revival” occurred.
		The Union soldiers were deeply affected by the revival, and many attributed their surprising victory over the Confederates as “a visible interposition of God.” Soon after their victory at Chattanooga, the Union troops were pursuing their enemy as they retreated towards Atlanta.
	members.tripod.com /~greatamericanhistory/gr02012.htm (1624 words)

	ICRF Report: Religious Freedom in China
		The cornerstone of the policy has been to ensure that all religious activity is registered, that unregistered religious activity is brought to an end and that the registered religions teach and practice in ways which are in accord with government social, educational, economic, and political policy.
		In spite of their efforts, unauthorized religious activity in all faiths has continued to spread and the national and local government have reacted with varying degrees of repression.
		Any religious activities in schools is banned, and communist party members are forbidden from participating in Islamic religious activities or distributing religious materials.
	www.religiousfreedom.com /wrpt/Chinarpt.htm (2333 words)

	People's Republic of China: Religious repression in China - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Many religious believers belong to groups which are not recognized by the authorities, whose members are periodically harassed or detained, and some of their leaders imprisoned.
		Religious work, he said, should "serve" the economic and social development goals and be built into provincial work plans set for the next five and 15 years.
		On one hand, the partys religious policy protects the right to freedom of religious belief; on the other hand, however, this right is restricted by the law, and the enjoyment of this freedom must be within the limits permitted by the law.
	www.web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/index/ASA170691996 (15475 words)

	Religious Revivals in Communist China
		Yet, a mere thirteen years later, a religious revival is just as undeniably under way in China, and on a scale and of a vigor that is astonishing.
		This religious revival is best understood, like so much occurring in China today, as an unintended consequence of some fairly limited measures of liberalization.
		The current religious revival in China, then, responds to a burden of personal and collective suffering over fifty years that is inexplicable through communist belief (the party, after all, is theoretically infallible).
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln270/Waldron-revivals.htm (4521 words)

	Religious Revival and the Transformation of English Sensibilities in the Early Ninteeenth Century
		Religious Revival and the Transformation of English Sensibilities in the Early Ninteeenth Century
		He concluded that the religious revival that took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially that of the Methodists, had so transformed the English spirit that the nation shrunk from revolution.
		Their position, similar to Marx's, has been that the religious sentiments connected with Methodism had a kind of soporific effect that numbed the sensibilities of the people to the misery of their condition, thus permitting conditions of injustice to persist that revolution might have put aright.
	www.victorianweb.org /religion/intro.html (325 words)

	revival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		One dramatic indication of this increased status was the explosion of construction that took place throughout Europe of stunning Church abbeys, churches and of course cathedrals.
		Later cultural and intellectual revival in Europe were enhanced by these inter-regional and Mediterranean connections renewed as a result of warfare.
		Political revival was the most destructive for the feudal lords and vassals.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /hcconline/hist151/revival.htm (1640 words)

	WorkingForChange-Hollow Halleluiahs
		It appears that the "Great Religious Revival" was more hype and a product of the wishful thinking on the part of those Christian leaders who are always of the mind that the country needs a spiritual reawakening and religious revival to get right with God.
		The American Religious Identification Survey 2001 found: "Often lost amidst the mesmerizing tapestry of faith groups that comprise the American population, is also a vast and growing population of those without faith.
		Since the beginning of this religious revival hoopla I've been bothered most by the notion that America's churches may have missed the moment -- the greater the tragedy, the bigger the opportunity for various religions to sink their teeth into people's lives.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemId=12438 (1370 words)

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