Wandering souls : Protestant migrations in America, 1630-1865 /

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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. He examines the migration patterns of eight religiou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Protestants > United States > History.
Migration, Internal > United States > History.
Protestants > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Migration, Internal
Protestants
United States > Church history.
États-Unis > Histoire religieuse.
United States
Electronic books.
Church history
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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