|  | Title: Buddhism & Heathenism
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Short articles on Presbyterian missionary views on Buddhism at the end of the 19th century
Subject: Buddhism; Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 4 Filesize:
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| | Title: The Construction of Mainstream Thought on “Thainess” and the “Truth” Constructed by “Thainess”
Author: Sattayanurak, Saichol
Description: This article investigates M.R. Kukrit Pramoj’s idea of “Thainess”. He was an intellectual who communicated so actively with the Thai society that he had the greatest influence on its thinking in the past fifty years.
Subject: Culture
Type: Article
Pages: 38 Filesize:
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| | Title: Dawn Wind
Author: OMF Thailand
Description: This book gives the reader a proper understanding of the country, its culture and religion, which help to show the barriers of resistance that have been erected to the Gospel and ways in which these walls of resistance can be brought down. Even though it was written over 20 years ago it is just as applicable today as it was back then.
Subject: Church History; Culture; Church Planting
Type: Book
Year Published: 1980
Pages: 112 Filesize:
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| | Title: Edict of Toleration
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Short explanation about the "Edict of Toleration" issued in 1878
Subject: Culture
Type: Article
Pages: 1 Filesize:
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| | Title: Exploring Social Barriers To Conversion Among The Thai
Author: Johnson, Alan
Description: This article is about barriers to conversion for Thai people that are not religious, doctrinal, or philosophical, but rather are social in the sense that they have to do with the dynamics that grow out of our interrelationships with other people.
Subject: Culture; Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 21 Filesize:
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| | Title: Friendly exclusivism and aggressive inclusivism
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: A comparative survery of the various types of exclusivism and inclusivism in the East and the West, and among adherents of various religious worldviews
Subject: Buddhism; Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 3 Filesize:
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| | Title: History of Thailand
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: A brief political history of Thailand (This article is paragraph 2.2. of Marten Visser, Conversion Growth of Protestant Churches in Thailand, 2008.)
Subject: Church History; Culture
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 4 Filesize:
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| | Title: Human Trafficking, Poverty, & The Sex Industry in Thailand
Author: Lambert, John
Description: A missionary visits a few key locations to meet with some key Westerners who are working on the ground to bring real solutions to the human trafficking problem in Thailand
Subject: Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 9 Filesize:
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| | Title: Ignorant Thai Students (Nazi Dress-Up Day at Chiang Mai School)
Author: Lambert, John
Description: A Nazi dress-up day at a school in Chiang Mai reveals an appalling ignorance of history in the Thai educational system
Subject: Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 5 Filesize:
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| | Title: Indigenous Missionary Medicine
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Short articles about medicine and evangelism in north Thailand in the Laos Mission
Subject: Culture; Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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| | Title: Isaan Wedding
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: First-hand description of attending a wedding in Isaan
Subject: Culture; Isaan
Type: Article
Year Published: 2012
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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| | Title: Komins Thai Values Survey
Author: Leighton, Mark
Description: Mark Leighton’s summary of the nine value clusters that Suntaree Komin found and documented in her book “Psychology of the Thai people: values and behavioral patterns.” This summary is excerpted from Leighton’s thesis, “An Appraisal of the Home Bible Seminary: A Leadership Training Program in Thailand.”
Subject: Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2000
Pages: 18 Filesize:
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| | Title: Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India
Author: Fleeson, Katherine Neville
Description: Northern Thai folklore told by nationals to early missionaries
Subject: Church History | 1800-1900; Culture
Type: Book
Year Published: 1899
Pages: 188 Filesize:
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| | Title: The Laos of North Siam
Author: Curtis, Lillian Johnson
Description: Written by a missionary living in the late 1800's in Northern Thailand. It tells the stories and history of early missionary work
Subject: Church History | 1800-1900; Culture; Missionaries
Type: Book
Year Published: 1903
Pages: 396 Filesize:
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| | Title: Leadership in a Bangkok Slum: An Ethnography of Thai Urban Poor in the Lang Wat Pathum Wanaram Community An Ethnography of Thai Urban Poor in the Lang Wat Pathum Wanaram Community
Author: Johnson, Alan
Description: A thesis submitted by Alan Johnson in fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Wales on ‘What are the shared understandings that Thais in the target community have about the leader-follower relationship, and how are these understandings utilized and enacted in social contexts?
Subject: Leadership; Culture
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 2006
Pages: 418 Filesize:
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| | Title: Loy Krathong & the Water Goddess
Author: Lambert, John
Description: Loi Krathong has been called the most important and significant holiday of the year for the Thai people as well as parts of Laos and Myanmar (Shan state). It was recently celebrated here in Thailand, but in much less fanfare due to the current massive floods still affecting greater Bangkok. What is it all about? How does it play out with the current flooding situation? Is there room for interpretation?
Subject: Culture; Buddhism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 5 Filesize:
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| | Title: Madam Yee Hube
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Short article about insights into Thai values through a Thai soap opera
Subject: Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2003
Pages: 1 Filesize:
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| | Title: Medicine & Mission
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Few short articles about the relationship between religion and medicine and how missionaries from the North Laos Mission saw Christian medical care.
Subject: Buddhism; Church History | 1800-1900; Culture; Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 3 Filesize:
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| | Title: One-Way Missions in the Age of Global Christianity: A View from Thailand
Author: Zehner, Edwin
Description: This article outlines the rapidly increasing level of missionary activity by Thailand’s Protestant churches and then notes a tendency for missions to flow from groups of higher prestige and socio-economic power to groups of lower prestige. Noting that the same pattern is observable among Christian missions worldwide, the author calls for greater attention to the patterns of church-mission partnerships, greater openness to spiritual leadership from groups of lower status, and greater attention to the work of non- Western missions worldwide. He also notes that failure to correct these patterns could sometimes lead missions to overlook the very kinds of movements among less respected peoples that had given rise to the churches in which their own personnel had been raised.
Subject: Church Planting; Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2010
Pages: 9 Filesize:
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| | Title: Patron-Client Relationships and the Challenge for the Thai Church
Author: Taylor, Steve
Description: This study investigates the patterns of patron-client relationships in Thai society. It primarily deals with the relationship between church leaders and members. It covers a wider spectrum of relationships within the church, especially where one person exercises influence over another.
Subject: Culture; Leadership; Syncretism
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 1997
Pages: 164 Filesize:
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| | Title: The Playboy Bunny and Contextualization
Author: Dahlfred, Karl
Description: The use of the Playboy bunny symbol in Thai fashion illustrates the challenge of deciding the meaning of certain cultural items in the process of contextualization
Subject: Contextualization; Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2009
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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| | Title: Please Your Mother, Become a Monk
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: Becoming a monk is not very popular anymore with young men. But one argument still carries a lot of weight. Therefore in many places throughout the country you now see billboards. They show an idyllic picture of a Buddhist temple, with the slogan: “Please your mother, become a monk!”
Subject: Buddhism; Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 1 Filesize:
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| | Title: String-Tying Ritual as Christian Communication in Northeast Thailand
Author: DeNeui, Paul
Description: The purpose of this research is to present missiological insights from a study of the deep level meaning and communication effects of STR as practiced by Isaan followers of Jesus in northeast Thailand. These insights are derived from a descriptive analysis of Isaan worldview themes viewed from the historic perspective, the biblical and theological perspectives, and observation, interview, and survey data.
Subject: Contextualization; Culture; Isaan
Type: Thesis
Year Published: 2005
Pages: 363 Filesize:
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| | Title: Thai Culture
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: A short article about the nature of Thai culture, focusing on the Suntaree Komin's study of the values of the Thai people. (This article is paragraph 2.5 from Marten Visser, Conversion Growth of Protestant Churches in Thailand, 2008.)
Subject: Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 4 Filesize:
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| | Title: Thailand Field Guide
Author: Mann, Greg Mann
Description: An overall guide describe customs and tradtitions in Thailand. It is good document to give people new to this country or coming on a short term trip
Subject: Culture
Type: Handbook
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 22 Filesize:
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| | Title: Thousand Miles on an Elephant
Author: Hallett, Holt S
Description: One of the earliest books written on missionary work in Northern Thailand
Subject: Church History | 1800-1900; Culture
Type: Book
Year Published: 1890
Pages: 554 Filesize:
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| | Title: Welcome to Thailand
Author: Vik, Debbie
Description: A short article covering customs in Thailand. It is especially helpful for new missionaries or short them teams
Subject: Culture
Type: Article
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 3 Filesize:
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