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|  | Title: A Typology of Thai Conversions to Evangelical Christianity
Description: This article focuses on typologies of Thai conversions to evangelicalism and is part of Chapter Three of Ed Zehner's doctoral dissertation, which contributes to understanding why people convert to such an apparently alien religion for Thais as evangelical Christianity.
Subject: Evangelism
Type: Article
Year Published: 2004
Pages: 11 Filesize:
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| | Title: One-Way Missions in the Age of Global Christianity: A View from Thailand
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: Beyond anti-syncretism: Gospel, context and authority in the New Testament and in Thai conversions to Christianity
Description: Chapter from the book "Power and identity in the Global Church" using material from the study of Thai Christians and Thai Bhuddist conversions to Christianity in light of the apostle Paul's missiological and theological struggles in his own context, to suggest some of the difficulties in distinguishing between contextualization and syncretism and to argue that missionaries need to avoid being overly directive in the attempt to shape the contextualization of local churches.
Subject: Contextualization
Type: Book
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 29 Filesize:
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| | Title: Church Growth and Culturally Appropriate Leadership: Three Examples from the Thai Church
Description: This paper contains case studies of three individuals who had a special impact on the history of the Thai church. The paper investigates the relationship between their leadershipstyle and church growth.
Subject: Leadership
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 1987
Pages: 122 Filesize:
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| | Title: Thai Christian converts and traditional supernaturalism: The conflict of intersecting worldviews
Description: This article explores the contours and intersections of thetwo sets of beliefs of Thai Christians and Thai non-Christians, and the way the differences are played out in talk ebout the supernatural, and in the practice of and responses to proselytization.
Subject: Contextualization; Buddhism
Type: Research Paper
Year Published: 1990
Pages: 35 Filesize:
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