04297cam a2200709Ia 4500 ocn593325352 OCoLC 20200709055243.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 100402s2010 ncuab ob s001 0 eng d N$T eng pn N$T EBLCP OCLCQ MHW OCLCQ YDXCP E7B FVL OCLCQ JSTOR P@U OCLCF P4I COO OCLCQ NLGGC OCLCQ OCLCO DEBSZ OCLCQ 647880442 748597758 781278436 9780807895870 (electronic bk.) 0807895873 (electronic bk.) 9781469604305 (electronic bk.) 1469604302 (electronic bk.) 080783372X (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780807833728 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780807833728 (cloth ; alk. paper) (OCoLC)593325352 (OCoLC)647880442 (OCoLC)748597758 (OCoLC)781278436 22573/ctt62k9t JSTOR n-us--- BR515.5 .R64 2010eb SOC 007000 bisacsh HIS036000 bisacsh REL033000 bisacsh 304.8/730882804 22 MAIN Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957- Wandering souls [electronic resource] : Protestant migrations in America, 1630-1865 / S. Scott Rohrer. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010. 1 online resource (x, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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 religious groups and finds that Protestant migrations consisted of two basic types: migrations motivated by religion, economics, and family (including Puritans, Methodists, Moravians, and others)and groups wanting to escape persecution or harassment (Mormons and Inspirationists). He concludes that the two m. Print version record. United States Church history. Protestants United States History. Migration, Internal United States History. SOCIAL SCIENCE Emigration & Immigration. bisacsh HISTORY United States General. bisacsh Migration, Internal. fast (OCoLC)fst01020741 Protestants. fast (OCoLC)fst01079934 United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 Electronic books. Church history fast (OCoLC)fst01411629 History fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Electronic books. Print version: Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957- Wandering souls. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807833728 (DLC) 2009033896 (OCoLC)432443350 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=312429 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL515699 ebrary EBRY ebr10367501 EBSCOhost EBSC 312429 Project MUSE MUSE muse23502 YBP Library Services YANK 3175012 YBP Library Services YANK 10383039 92 N$T 49765 49765