You can ask this kind of thing over in hp_britglish: obviously it's predominantly for the Harry Potter fandom, but if you don't mention that it's a different fandom then there are looooooads of us over there desperate to educate foreigners about All Things British!
In answer ... um, not very much. There are fundamentalist Christians over here, of course, but there's not really any kind of mass movement that would get the kind of thing going that you're talking about. I wouldn't swear that there's never been a revivalist meeting in a tent or whatever, but they're not so popular that everyone would know about them. Religious stuff is much more likely to be lowkey, and very unlikely to attract a mass audience.
There's a Christian music festival called Greenfields or something, that a friend of mine went to back in 1996. That was so long ago that I couldn't even swear it's still going, though. Sorry!
Easter People is a quite mainstream Christian holiday-camp thing, with prayer groups / bible reading groups / worship / social activities throughout the day, for everyone from kids to grannies. whole families often go. It is a big deal, with events hosted by all the churches in a decent-sized town (I went to one in Torquay, a seaside resort in Devon).
Spring Harvest happens at the same time, but is less well known and a bit more modern, youthful, specifically targeted at those who prefer to worship in an up-to-date fashion. It happens in big tents somewhere, I don't know where.
There are summer festivals (like Glastonbury with worship sessions) with names like Greenbelt and Soul Survivors. Actually, Greenbelt is a lot of fun - hopefully I'll be going this year, which will be my third time.
One a year we have the blessing of the graves. I don't know if they do it in England. (i'm in ireland.)
Basically a huge crowd gathers to watch the priest walk around a graveyard in the rain. It's a rule that it WILL be cold and windy and wet on that day, no matter what the weather the day before.
Don't think this is useful, but every so often at schoolwe'd have religious assemblies where a guest-speaking vicar would read us a moralistic story or two, tell us of something similar in the bible, we'd sing a few hymns in between, and finish with the lord's prayer. Apart from that, sunday meetings after church to go for tea and whatnot at a specified person's house. (very much the province of old, single aunts/great aunts.)
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In answer ... um, not very much. There are fundamentalist Christians over here, of course, but there's not really any kind of mass movement that would get the kind of thing going that you're talking about. I wouldn't swear that there's never been a revivalist meeting in a tent or whatever, but they're not so popular that everyone would know about them. Religious stuff is much more likely to be lowkey, and very unlikely to attract a mass audience.
There's a Christian music festival called Greenfields or something, that a friend of mine went to back in 1996. That was so long ago that I couldn't even swear it's still going, though. Sorry!
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I'll figure out something. Thanks for the input.
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Spring Harvest happens at the same time, but is less well known and a bit more modern, youthful, specifically targeted at those who prefer to worship in an up-to-date fashion. It happens in big tents somewhere, I don't know where.
Would either of these serve your fic?
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But thanks.
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What I really need is something with the sheer gall of Televangelism.
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I don't know if they do it in England. (i'm in ireland.)
Basically a huge crowd gathers to watch the priest walk around a graveyard in the rain.
It's a rule that it WILL be cold and windy and wet on that day, no matter what the weather the day before.
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Apart from that, sunday meetings after church to go for tea and whatnot at a specified person's house. (very much the province of old, single aunts/great aunts.)
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Not what I'm looking for, you're right, but thanks. I think I'm going to have to set the story in America...
In fact, flipping on the TV, I was greeted by the perfect setting. (http://www.mega-fest.com/)
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