Revival meeting Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==In popular culture== This movement has been portrayed by director [[Richard Brooks]] in his [[1960 in film|1960]] film ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'' with [[Burt Lancaster]] (who received the [[Academy Award]] for this film) and [[Jean Simmons]], adapted from [[Sinclair Lewis]]' [[Elmer Gantry|eponymous novel]]. The [[Stephen King]] novel, [[Revival (novel)|''Revival'']], features a major character who is a revival meeting faith healer. There is a revival scene in the 1997 film ''[[The Apostle]]'', starring [[Robert Duvall]]. Duvall's portrayal of an evangelical minister earned him an [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] nomination. [[Cormac McCarthy]]'s novel ''[[Blood Meridian]]'' begins with a scene set at a revival meeting. The Academy Award-winning documentary ''[[Marjoe]]'' reviews the career of child-evangelist [[Marjoe Gortner]], giving a behind-the-scenes look at revivals he promoted as an adult. [[Neil Diamond]]'s ''[[Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show]]'' depicts a revival meeting. The music video for [[OneRepublic]]'s [[Counting Stars]] depicts a Christian revival meeting. [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]'s ''[[Little Town on the Prairie]]'' depicts a week of revival meetings at the [[Congregational church]] in [[De Smet, South Dakota]]. Remembrances of revival-meetings attended as a youth were the inspiration for the second movement of [[Charles Ives|Charles Ives']] [[Orchestral Set No. 2]], ''The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor Meeting''.<ref>Ives, Charles E. (1973) ''Memos'' (ed. Kirkpatrick), Calder & Boyars, p. 92</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page