• DOI:10.1017/S002246340002107X
Corpus ID: 145218294

Thai Protestants and Local Supernaturalism: Changing Configurations

@article{Zehner1996ThaiPA,
  title={Thai Protestants and Local Supernaturalism: Changing Configurations},
  author={E. Zehner},
  journal={Journal of Southeast Asian Studies},
  year={1996},
  volume={27},
  pages={293-319}
}

E. Zehner

Published 1996

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Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries in Thailand, considering local supernaturalism superstitious, called on converts to abandon it. By the late twentieth century, local spirits had been given a place in Thai Protestant cosmologies. The script seems familiar; syncretism is a common subtext in the history of Christian missions, a creative use of symbolic resources to appropriate and counter the symbolic systems of more powerful societies such as North America, Europe, and local political… CONTINUE READING

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