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Wandering Souls

Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865

By: S. Scott Rohrer

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Wandering Souls

Protestant Migrations in America, 1630-1865

By: S. Scott Rohrer

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. In Wandering Souls, Rohrer examines the migration patterns of eight religious groups and finds that Protestant migrations consisted of two basic types. The most common type involved migrations motivated by religion, economics, and family, in which Puritans, Methodists, Moravians, and others headed to the frontier as individuals in search of religious and social fulfillment. The other type involved groups wanting to escape persecution (such as the Mormons) or to establish communities where they could practice their faith in peace (such as the Inspirationists). Rohrer concludes that the two migration types shared certain traits, despite the great variety of religious beliefs and experiences, and that "secular" values infused the behavior of nearly all Protestant migrants. Religion's role in transatlantic migrations is well known, but its importance to the famed mobility of Americans is far less understood. Wandering Souls demonstrates that Protestantism greatly influenced internal migration and the social and economic development of early America.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807895873

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Hope's Promise

Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry

By: S. Scott Rohrer

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Religion and Acculturation in the Southern Backcountry

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A fresh perspective on the interaction of religious ideals and social change in rural settlements of the Moravian colony of Wachovia.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817357769

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9780817357764

Jacob Green’s Revolution

Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age

By: S. Scott Rohrer

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Jacob Green’s Revolution

Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age

By: S. Scott Rohrer

Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green’s Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey’s revolutionary drama—Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican minister from Elizabeth Town who was a leading loyalist spokesman in America. Both men were towering intellects who were shaped by Puritan culture and the Enlightenment, and both became acclaimed writers and leading figures in New Jersey—Green for the rebelling colonists, Chandler for the king. Through their stories, this book examines the ways in which religion influenced reform during a pivotal time in American history.

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Penn State Press

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0271065796

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9780271065793

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