All Christian Revival

A Christian revival is a period of intensified religious activity within churches, typically marked by mass conversions, emotional or ecstatic worship, and renewed evangelistic fervor, that can influence communities on a local, national, or global scale. Revivals recur throughout Christian history as a recognized category of event distinct from ordinary worship or a single-instance miracle: revivalist episodes such as the First and Second Great Awakenings in colonial and nineteenth-century America, the Welsh Revival of 1904 to 1905, the Cane Ridge camp meeting of 1801, the Azusa Street Revival that helped found the modern Pentecostal movement, and later charismatic renewal phenomena such as the Toronto Blessing each began with a specific, dateable outbreak of fervent conversion and prayer. Historians of religion study these episodes together as instances of the same recurring pattern of periodic, intensified mass religious enthusiasm within an existing Christian community, rather than as isolated, unrelated events.