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study reports and analyzes the data collected from a questionnaire
on northern Thai Protestant attitudes towards people of other of
faiths, which was distributed in early 2004. The purpose of the
questionnaire, in a narrow sense, was to discover the patterns in
pluralist and exclusivist thinking and attitudes on the parts of
the respondents. More generally, the data collected from the questionnaire
also gives insights into the ways in which northern Thai Protestants
accommodate their Buddhist pluralist and Protestant exclusivist
ideas and attitudes to each other. A total of 726 forms were returned,
and on the basis of the data contained in those forms it may be
concluded that the respondents hold both pluralist and exclusivist
attitudes. In general, it may be said that they tend to be more
pluralist in their general thinking about people of other faiths
but more exclusivist in their reluctance to participate in the religious
rites of other religions.
The
study is divided into five chapters. Chapters 1 through 3 present
the data and commentary for each of the fifteen main questions on
the questionnaire. Chapter 4 provides further analysis of those
questions by trying to determine if exclusivist and pluralist "core
groups" can be located from the data. The chapter concludes
that only roughly each of these two core groups form only about
10% or a little more each of the sample. Chapter 5 presents the
data from the seven questions on background information, the variables.
The
report includes 81 tables, and each of the first four chapters has
a section on reflections. The purpose in presenting this study on
herbswanson.com, however, is to give researchers access to more
data than can be included in the published papers and articles that
may result from this study. Only a few secondary works are cited
in the body of the study.
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