The Transmigration of Souls
Author : Alfred Bertholet
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Soul
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Author : Alfred Bertholet
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Soul
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Author : S. Scott Rohrer
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807895873
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.
Author : Ruth Padel
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1619024330
"Life began with migration." In a magnificent tapestry of life on the move, Ruth Padel weaves poems and prose, science and religion, wild nature and human history, to conjure a world created and sustained by migration. "We're all from somewhere else," she begins. "Migration builds civilization but also causes displacement." From the Holy Family's Flight into Egypt, the Lost Colony on Roanoke, and the famous photograph 'Migrant Mother', Padel turns to John James Audubon's journey from Haiti and France, heirlooms carried through Ellis Island, Kennedy's "society of immigrants" and Casa del Migrante on the Mexican border. But she reaches the human story through the millennia–old journeys of cells in our bodies, trees in the Ice Age, Monarch butterflies travelling from Alaska to Mexico. As warblers battle hurricanes over the Caribbean and wildebeest brave a river filled with the largest crocodiles in Africa, she shows that the truest purpose of migration for both humans and animals is survival.
Author : Frank Moore Colby
Publisher :
Page : 1766 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : James Hastings
Publisher :
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Ethics
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Author : Ernest George Ravenstein
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Emigration and immigration
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Page : 882 pages
File Size : 40,68 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 882 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Alfred EDERSHEIM
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : Franz Delitzsch
Publisher :
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Bible
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