Thai Protestants and Local Supernaturalism: Changing Configurations
1996 ◽
Vol 27
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pp. 293-319
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Although nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries in Siam tried to debunk local spirit beliefs and witchcraft accounts, they and their actions were perceived in terms of local supernaturalist frameworks. Late twentieth-century Thai Christians, supernaturalists themselves, have reclassified local spirit activity through their own Christian frameworks, using local vocabularies of spirit phenomena but retaining master categories of interpretation and practice drawn from North American evangelicalism. This practice puts Thai Protestant churches in a direct dialogue with their cultural contexts and leaves them positioned to benefit from Thailand's increasing religious pluralism.
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2019 ◽
Vol 17
(4)
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pp. 432-447
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1991 ◽
Vol 43
(3)
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pp. 251-273
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