But not all are like this.The mainline revivalist parties in Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan have said that they wish to operate within a democratic system multi-party free electionsystem multi-partygovernment and all.
On August 20th, the country's Sharia radio station announced that the Taliban, the Islamic revivalist movement which controls much of the south and west where most of the heroin is produced had banned the production, sale and taking of both heroin and hashish.
So it is perhaps natural that the Houthis, a revivalist movement for the Zaydi form of Shia Islam that has lately grown in strength from its base in the north of the country, should squeeze the government by holding Sana'a, Yemen's capital, to ransom.This is in effect what the Houthis, who prefer to call themselves Ansar Allah or the Partisans of God, have done since mid-August.
TED meetings have a revivalist feel, from the preacher's promises of salvation to the happy-clappy congregation.
The phenomenal growth of this religious revivalist party —it came into being only 15 years ago appals and frightens the secular liberals who make up the bulk of the Barak camp.
"For innovative, read modernist," says Robert Adam, a neo-classical architect with a wonderfully revivalist name.What is less clear is whether conservatively-minded patrons, many of whom prefer Palladio to le Corbusier, will put their money behind contemporary designers.
Mr Sipila, a telecoms millionaire and revivalist Lutheran who entered parliament four years ago, is focused on reviving Finland's moribund economy, only just emerging from a three-year slump.
This study suggests the system would repay the cost of building it within seven years.Nor is Italy the only ancient country that might benefit from Dr Cotana's revivalist technology.
Not long ago, the young warriors of this most fanatical of Islamic revivalist movements seemed on the brink of an astonishing success.
The Houthis, a religious revivalist group turned militia, are backed by Iran, a Shia power, with which Saudi Arabia, a Sunni bulwark, competes for regional hegemony.
Mr Holland sees his work as something different".Buena Vista was like a revivalist snapshot of a classic record, with a classic sound and aesthetic, but in all my records we're trying to do new things and write new songs," he says.
