Protestant migrations in America, 1630-1865 Rohrer, S. Scott 1957- creator text bibliography Electronic books. Church history History Electronic books. ncu Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2010 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (x, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps 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. 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. S. Scott Rohrer. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- United States Church history Protestants United States History Migration, Internal United States History SOCIAL SCIENCE Emigration & Immigration HISTORY United States General Migration, Internal Protestants United States BR515.5 .R64 2010eb 304.8/730882804 Rohrer, S. Scott, 1957- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009033896 (OCoLC)432443350 9780807895870 0807895873 9781469604305 1469604302 080783372X 9780807833728 22573/ctt62k9t JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=312429 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=312429 N$T 100402 20200709055243.0 ocn593325352 eng