Wandering souls
Subtitle: Protestant migrations in America, 1630-1865
By: S. Scott Rohrer.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780807833728
Subjects: Protestants -- United States -- History; Migration, Internal -- United States -- History; United States -- Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Migration in America; title: Introduction: An overview of Protestant migrations, 1630-1865; title: The first frontier : Thomas Hooker and the New England Puritans; title: Part II: The Protestant sojourner; title: Migration and the new birth : Devereux Jarratt and the Anglicans of Virginia; title: Ethnicity and mobility : Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in eighteenth-century America; title: Land and family : the pietist migration to North Carolina in the late Colonial Period; title: Reform and the missionary drive : Methodists in the Ohio Country; title: Part III: Journeys of the pure; title: The dissenters : Baptists and Congregationalists in a separatist world; title: God's chosen sojourners : the inspirationists of Amana, Iowa; title: An American exodus : Mormons and the westward trek.