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 A Church historian skeptical of recurring talk about revivalism admits that new forms of religiosity are appearing, but wonders if we're using the right indicators to observe them. Isn't this talk of revivalism, which comes up about every twenty years, a kind of recurrent journalistic theme that is based on only a few spectacular, but not really significant, facts? Surveys show that the secularization curve continues to move upward and religious institutions continue to disintegrate.