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Wandering Souls Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865 / S. Scott Rohrer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration, Internal--United States--History.
- Migration, Internal.
- Protestants--United States--History.
- Protestants.
- United States--Church history.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (323 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Popular literature and frontier studies stress that Americans moved west to farm or to seek a new beginning. Scott Rohrer argues that Protestant migrants in early America relocated in search of salvation, Christian community, reform, or all three. In Wandering Souls, Rohrer examines the migration patterns of eight religious groups and finds that Protestant migrations consisted of two basic types. The most common type involved migrations motivated by religion, economics, and family, in which Puritans, Methodists, Moravians, and others headed to the frontier as individuals in sear
- Contents:
- Part I. Migration in America
- Introduction: An overview of Protestant migrations, 1630-1865
- The first frontier : Thomas Hooker and the New England Puritans
- Part II. The Protestant sojourner
- Migration and the new birth : Devereux Jarratt and the Anglicans of Virginia
- Ethnicity and mobility : Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in eighteenth-century America
- Land and family : the pietist migration to North Carolina in the late Colonial Period
- Reform and the missionary drive : Methodists in the Ohio Country
- Part III. Journeys of the pure
- The dissenters : Baptists and Congregationalists in a separatist world
- God's chosen sojourners : the inspirationists of Amana, Iowa
- An American exodus : Mormons and the westward trek.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-291-5
- 979-88-908822-9-5
- 1-4696-0430-2
- 0-8078-9587-3
- OCLC:
- 593325352
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