|  | 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
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 4 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
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
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
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 3 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
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
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
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
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
Year Published: 2000
Pages: 18 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
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
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
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
Year Published: 2010
Pages: 9 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
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 1 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
Year Published: 2008
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
Pages: 38 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
Year Published: 2009
Pages: 2 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
Year Published: 2008
Pages: 3 Filesize:
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