.... 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). The book concludes that the two migration types shared certain traits, despite the great variety of religious beliefs...

...This chapter tells the story of the Inspirationists, a German and Swiss group led by their prophet to Iowa in the mid-1850s after God told them to leave upstate New York and move west. It notes that the Inspirationists' deeper goal was to be left alone so that they could worship the Lord relatively...

... Pentecostalism Bartleman Frank Harris William Wade prophecy vernacular mysticism Anabaptism Spiritualism German Pietism Inspirationists Methodism Pentecostalism Indigenous Pentecostalism Figure 12.1  The English and French Prophets mad or bewitch’d (London, 1707) Precursors...

... Millenarianism Moravians Inspirationists Lutheran orthodoxy Philadelphian Movement Philipp Jakob Spener Regeneration The Pietist movement emerged in the seventeenth century to become one of the most dynamic reform movements in Protestantism after the Reformation. Centered in Germany...