A mania is an obsessional enthusiasm or liking. So it's when many people like something in a very crazy way. J walker talks about beetle mania, sportsmania and religious mania. A deafening crowd is a crowd so loud that you can't hear anything afterwards,. because it makes you deaf. Weeping is when people cry a lot - maybe sometimes in church people will be, will weep. He says there's visions of jesus christ appearing er in their living room, or jesuschrist appearing in e in church, something like that. The rapture is the extreme pleasurable feeling of joy which people get while involved in intense religious worship.