The Scotch-Irish

The Scotch-Irish
Author: James G. Leyburn
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2009-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807888915

Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.

The Mainstream Protestant "decline"

The Mainstream Protestant
Author: Milton J. Coalter
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664251505

The meaning of the declining membership in mainline Protestant denominations has been hotly contested since the 1960s. Drawing on statistical analysis of membership trends, congregational surveys, individual interviews, research on disaffiliation, and case studies of congregations and presbyteries, this volume examines patterns and causes of congregational growth and decline in the Presbyterian church. Through its examination of American Presbyterianism, the Presbyterian Presence series illuminates patterns of change in mainstream Protestantism and American religious and cultural life in the twentieth century.