The interpretative framework of revivals or awakenings is quite common in the area of religious history, whether it is approached in contexts of church history, cultural history, religious studies, social sciences, linguistics, or historical theology. Several research traditions use concepts like the (First, Second, or even Third) Great Awakening, (Spät)pietismus, Erweckungsbewegung, Methodism, Réveil or, in short, Revivalism. Although scholars have always acknowledged certain interdependencies , these concepts, generally speaking, imply separate developments that are circumscribed by national and linguistic borders. However, recent studies have strongly emphasized the often interconfessional and transnational nature of these diverse movements of religious renewal. Despite a growing body of comparative work, the field of “revival studies” is still in need of a more thoroughly globalized approach that acknowledges the polycentric structures of revivalistic Christianities and their manifold entanglements, especially in the modern period.

Following an international meeting in Greifswald (Germany) in 2015 (‘Zwischen Aufklärung und Moderne – Erweckungsbewegungen als historiographische Herausforderung’), the Amsterdam Centre for Religious History invites papers for another conference in order to promote conceptual, transnational and multidisciplinary research on local revivals in their global contexts between circa 1780 and 1920. While offering an open podium for fresh perspectives and original case studies, the conference will especially focus on three lines of current research:

> Networks, conferences and exchanges, promoted and sustained by international religious organisations in the nineteenth and (early) twentieth centuries, giving context and ground for (local, national) manifestations of religious revivalism.
> Media, in written, oral or material form, delivering the infrastructure for international exchange of ideas, experiences, stories, examples, images, music, or any construction of lived piety or revived religion.
> Perceptions, referring to communal identities among revivalists, their view of history and future, contemporary reactions on specific revivals, the framing of messages, persons, rituals or events as origins or results of revival(ism), processes of assimilation, persistence or alienation, historical accounts, historiographical surveys, theoretical constructions of all phenomena in case.

Hinting at the effects of religious revivals in the modern world, we encourage research on (a) what were the ecclesiastical, cultural and social results of the revivals shortly after they happened, (b) what traces they left in literature, politics, culture, public opinion etc. (both short and long term), and (c) how they influenced modern history until the present time. Therefore we also include more recent (e.g., twentieth century) phenomena that might throw light on nineteenth century revivalism and their particularities.