The fervor later spread as mom-and-pop investors who had watched nervously from the sidelines raced to the market.
Since the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, speculating about whether the fervor will spread and to which countries has become something of a world-watcher's parlor game.
The ugly fervor quickly spread to the political arena, where an openly anti-Islamic candidate enjoyed hefty donations from a conservative Nashville businessman in a run for Congress.
Coming in first, ahead of all the nerve-racked autocrats who had reason to fear that the democratic fervor would spread their way from Tahrir Square, was the popularly elected Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, however, the Second Great Awakening -- an explosion of evangelical fervor -- spread across the United States, and prosecutions for blasphemy reemerged.
As early as 1996 concerned Christians, Jews, Muslims, and secularists began meeting under diverse auspices to discuss plans to challenge groups that are exploiting millennialist fervor to spread the poison of bigotry and scapegoating.
What's certainly true is that, in an attempt to understand why the objective conditions of the European proletariat had failed to trigger widespread revolt, they concluded that religion that great "opium of the people"—and mass culture served to dampen revolutionary fervor and spread "false consciousness".
Despite sanctions, a plummeting economy, and isolation from the world as a result of its actions in Ukraine, a wave of patriotic fervor is spreading across Russia.
As the vanguard of an anti-testing fervor that has spread across the country, New York's opt-out movement has become a political force.
And if religion influenced democracy then, in the Second Great Awakening, decades later, the democratic fervor of the Revolution spread through the two mainline denominations and resulted in a massive growth of the sort of populist churches that typify American Christianity to this day.
