Wandering souls : Protestant migrations in America, 1630-1865 / S. Scott Rohrer.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957-
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Subjects:
United States > Church history.
Protestants > United States > History.
Migration, Internal > United States > History.
Physical Description:x, 312 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
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.