Welcome to herbswanson.com. The primary purpose of this website is to provide users with resources for the study of the church in Thailand. At present, it contains largely my own work, but as time goes on I hope to include other resources as well. Readers will also find material on northern Thai and Thai history, international church history, and other subjects related to, however remotely, the study of the past and the church's past and present in Thailand. The website is organized on the model of a library with four "departments" or sections. They are: Reference, Periodicals, Stacks, and Special Collections. The Website Contents guide, below, provides a list and brief description of what will be found in each section. Users will understand that herbswanson.com is in a permanent state of construction and reconstruction. Recent Additions to the website are listed just below.
Please feel free to come in, browse, and use what you find helpful. Downloaded material may not be distributed without permission, and the contents of this site may not be quoted at length. Using properly attributed brief quotations for academic purposes is acceptable.
I trust that you will find the contents of herbswanson.com helpful. Peace.
Herb Swanson
Ban Dok Daeng
villager@loxinfo.co.th
As of August 2006 there are two additions to herbswanson.com.
First, my M.A. thesis "This Heathen People: The Cognitive Sources of American Missionary Westernizing Activities in Northern Siam, 1867-1889" (University of Maryland, 1987) is now up and ready for use.
Second, an extensively revised HeRB 13 (July 2006) is also ready for use. This revision includes a new article and several new short notes and news items.
As also stated in the Introduction, above, and indicated in the folder tabs at the head of each page, herbswanson.com is organized into four departments. The contents of each department are as follows:
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Dictionary. Includes entries on subjects, people, events, and places frequently mentioned in this site. Under continuing construction. |
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Quotations. A collection of sometimes meaningful, occasionally tongue-in-cheek quotations without annotation. Under continuing construction. |
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Links. These links will take users to a variety of sites, some related to Christianity in Thailand, others of a more general interest, and some of a personal interest to me. |
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HeRB: Herb's Research Bulletin. This is an electronic journal containing articles, short items, news & notes, and book reviews on a wide range of subjects, generally but by no means exclusively focused on the history of Christianity in Thailand. See "Introducing HeRB" in HeRB 1 for further information. |
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Doctoral Dissertation. "Prelude to Irony: The Princeton Theology and the Practice of Presbyterian Missions in Northern Siam, 1867-1880." |
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Master's Thesis. "This Heathen People: The Cognitive Sources of American Missionary Westernizing Activities in Northern Siam, 1867-1889." |
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Krischak Muang Nua. A history of the northern Thai Church, 1868 to 1920, which I originally published privately in 1984. |
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A History of the Laurel Presbyterian Church. A history of the church my family and I attended in Laurel, Maryland, in the 1980s. The church published this study privately in book form in 1986. It may be seen as a prelude to my later work in local church history in Thailand. |
Documents concerning the Execution of Nan Chai & Noi Sunya, September 1869.
Edict of Religious Toleration, 1878.
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