Welcome to herbswanson.com. The primary purpose of this website is to contribute to the study of Thai church history. Readers will also find material on northern Thai and Thai history, international church history, and other subjects related to 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.
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 permissible.
I trust that you will find the contents of herbswanson.com helpful. Peace.
Herb Swanson
Lowville, New York
herbswanson@frontier.com
Beginning in September 2011, I have undertaken a major reconstruction of herbswanson.com aimed at making it simpler and easier to use. It is an old website and needs renovation, a process that is going to take a good deal of time to accomplish. The result has been that for the time being, herbswanson.com is two websites, the old one of a decade ago and the one that is emerging now. Unfortunately, internal links are being broken in the process, and I trust that readers will bear with me during reconstruction. My apologies for any inconveniences.
Renovation has been completed thus far on [1] the Bibliography of Thai Christianity and the Orientalism Bibliography; [2] all 13 issues of HeRB: Herb's Research Bulletin; [3] all six years of HeRD: Herb's Research Diary; [4] A History of the Laurel Presbyterian Church; [5] "Northern Thai Protestant Attitudes Towards Other Faiths: Analysis of a Questionnaire;" and [6] Khrischak Muang Nua.
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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