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Other Thai Church History Sources
This page contains a selection of significant sources for the study of Thai church and missionary history, most of which are not otherwise available online. It is divided into two sections: first, a General Section; and, second, a special section for works on Christianity in Thailand by Philip J. Hughes. Note that Thai authors are alphabetized by first name rather than last.
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List of Sources
General Sources
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Gerald H. Anderson, ed., Christianity in South East Asia: A Bibliographic Guide. New Haven: Yale University, 1966. (Contains "Thailand," 24-8). [PDF]
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Boon Mark Gittisarn, "What Modernism Has Done to Presbyterian Missions in Siam." In Modernism Takes Its Toll of Mission Work, by Carl McIntire and Boon Mark Gittisarn, 28-37. Collingswood, New Jersey: Christian Beacon Press, n.d. [PDF]
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[Bradley, Dan Beach, and Jesse Caswell] A Letter to American Christians: Being an Account of the Expulsion of Rev. Messrs. Bradley and Caswell from the Service of the A.B.C.F.M. Oberlin, Ohio: J. M. Fitch, 1848. [PDF]
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Bradley, William L. "Prince Mongkut and Jesse Caswell." Journal of the Siam Society 54, 1 (January 1966): 29-41. [PDF]
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Bradley, William L. "The White Man's Burden." Asian Studies (Quezon City) 12, 1 (April 1974): 180-99. [on Dan Beach Bradley] [PDF]
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Breazeale, Kennon. "English Missionaries Among the Thai." In Anuson Walter Vella, edited by Ronald D. Renard, 208-228. Honolulu: University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1986. [PDF]
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Bressan, Luigi. "The First Printed Sentence in Thai: A.D. 1646." Journal of the Siam Society 91 (2003): 241-244. Available online at the Siam Society. [PDF]
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Brown, Arthur J. "Missions in Siam." In One Hundred Years: A History of the Foreign Missionary Work of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 908-68. [PDF]
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Buddhadassa Indappano, Bhikku. Christianity and Buddhism. The Sinclair Thompson Memorial Lecture [1967]. Translated by the Venerable Punno, et. al. Sublime Life Mission, n.d. [PDF]
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Collins, Robert S. W. "Incarnation and Church Leadership in Thailand." In To What Extent? Incarnation and the Thai Context, edited by Herbert R. Swanson, 34-41. Chiang Mai: Payap College Manuscript Division, 1982. [PDF]
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Conklin, James E. "Fishing in Deep Waters Among Karen in Thailand." In Church Growth in the Third World, edited by Roger E. Hedlund, 228-43. Bombay: Gospel Literature Press, 1977. [PDF]
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Cressy, Earl H. A Program of Advance for the Christian Movement in Thailand. Bangkok: Church of Christ in Thailand, 1959. [PDF]
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Damrong Rajanubhab, Prince. "On American Missions in Siam." Missionary Review of the World 53 (May 1930): 331-336. [PDF]
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Elder, Newton Carl. "A Study to Determine a Workable Program for the Training of Leaders for Service in the Church of Christ in Siam." S.T.M. thesis, Oberlin College, 1938. [PDF - Zip File]
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Evinger, James, Carolyn Whitfield, and Judith Wiley. "Final Report of the Independent Abuse Review Panel Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)." Unpublished paper, Presbyterian Church (USA): 2010. (Thailand, pp. 271-301) [PDF]
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Grether, Herbert. "The Cross and the Bodhi Tree." Theology Today 16, 4 (January 1960): 446-58. [PDF]
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Gustafson, James W. "Holistic Mission: A Thai Church's Ministry to the Whole Person." In Sharing Jesus Holistically With the Buddhist World, edited by David Lim & Steve Spaulding, 281-298. Pasadena, California: William Carey Library, 2005. [PDF]
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Hayami, Yoko. "Karen Tradition According to Christ or Buddha: The Implications of Multiple Reinterpretation for a Minority Ethnic Group in Thailand." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 27, 2 (September 1996): 334-349. [PDF]
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Hovemyr, Anders. "Towards a Theology of the Incarnation in the Thai Context." In To What Extent? Incarnation and the Thai Context, edited by Herbert R. Swanson, 17-23. Chiang Mai: Payap College Manuscript Division, 1982. [PDF]
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Kiriti Bunchua, "History of the Church in Thailand." In Asia and Christianity, edited by M. D. David, 67-77. Bombay: Himalaya Publishing, 1985. [PDF]
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Koson Srisang, "Free and Compassionate: A Perspective on Religious Foundations of Political Ethics." In Liberation and Ethics: Essays in Religious Social Ethics in Honor of Gibson Winter, edited by Charles Amjad-Ali and W. Alvin Pitcher, 215-27. Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1985. [PDF]
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Koson Srisang, "On Reinterpreting the Dhamma: Towards an Adequate Thai Social Ethics." In Radical Conservatism: Buddhism in the Contemporary World, edited by Sulak Sivaraksa, 469-487. Bangkok: The Inter-Religious Commission for Development and International Network of Engaged Buddhists, 1990. [PDF]
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Koson Srisang, "Recovering the Power of Life." In Living Theology in Asia, edited by John C. England, 126-135. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1982. [PDF]
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Koyama, Kosuke. "Prelude to a 'Neighbor-ology': Confessing the Faith in Thailand Today." South East Asia Journal of Theology 8, 1 & 2 (July-October 1966): 171-75. [PDF]
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Koyama, Kosuke. "Thailand: Points of Theological Friction." In Asian Voices in Christian Theology, edited by Gerald H. Anderson, 65-86. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1974. [PDF]
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Koyama, Kosuke. "'Wrath of God' vs. Thai Theologia Gloriae." Christ and the Younger Churches: Theological Contributions from Asia, edited by George F. Vicedom, 42-50. London: SPCK, 1972. [PDF]​
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Krahl, Harald. "The History of the Translation of the First Thai Bible." M.A. thesis, Columbia International University, 2005. [PDF]
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Kriengsak Chareonwongsak. "Megachurches for Christian Minorities: Hope of Bangkok." In Planting and Growing Urban Churches. From Dream to Reality, edited by Harvie M Conn, 211-21. Grand Rapids Michigan: Baker, 1997. [PDF]
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Laschenski, Sigmund J. "Theology From the Mountain Top." In To What Extent? Incarnation and the Thai Context, edited by Herbert R. Swanson, 42-49. Chiang Mai: Payap College Manuscript Division, 1982. [PDF]
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Lyall, Leslie T. A Biography of John Sung. Singapore: ARMOUR Publishing Pte. Ltd., 2004. (Chapters 20 and 21, on Sung in Siam) [PDF]
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MacLean, Josepheen. Some Sources and Roots of the CCT. [Chiang Mai: Payap University Archives, 2004]. (Number 5 of 20 bound copies each containing 20 hand-painted watercolor reproductions of historical events). [PDF]
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Maen Pongudom. "Creation of Man: Theological Reflections Based on Northern Thai Folktales." In Voices From the Margin: Interpreting the Bible in the Third World, edited by R. S. Sugirtharajahp, 364-371. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1991. [PDF]
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Maen Pongudom. "Models of the Church in Church History." In Tradition and Innovation: A Search for a Relevant Ecclesiology in Asia, edited by C.T.C.-C.C.A., 125-134. Singapore: Commission on Theological Concerns, Christian Conference of Asia, 1983. [PDF]
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Miyata, Mariko. "Memories of Religious Persecutions in 1940s Thailand: Martyrs and Pilgrimage among the Thai Catholics." Notandum 18, 39 (September-December 2015): 69-82. [PDF]
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Parichart Suwanbubbha. "Towards a Culture of Religious Diversity and Communal Harmony." Current Dialogue 43 (July 2004). [PDF]
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Popp, Richard L. "American Missionaries and the Introduction of Western Science and Medicine in Thailand, 1830-1900." Missiology: An International Review 13, 2 (April 1985): 147-57. [PDF]
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Prasit Pongudom. "A Historical Turning Point: The Execution of Christians in Chiang Mai in 1869." CMU Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 3, 3 (June 2009): 5-21. [PDF]
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Seri Phongphit. "Buddhist Christian Approach to Social Liberation." In Radical Conservatism: Buddhism in the Contemporary World, edited by Sulak Sivaraksa, 459-468. Bangkok: The Inter-Religious Commission for Development and International Network of Engaged Buddhists, 1990. [PDF]
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Siriwan Santisakultarm. "Changes in the Thai Catholic Way of Life." In Belief in Media: Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity, edited by Peter Horsfield, Mary E. Hess, & Adan M. Madrano, 165-178. Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2004. [PDF]
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Smalley, William A. "Early Protestant Missionaries and the Development of Thailand's Hierarchy of Multilingualism." In Southeast Asian Linguistic Studies in Honour of Vichin Panupong, edited by Arthur S. Abramson, 237-51. Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press, 1997. [PDF]
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Somrat Charuluxananana and Vilai Chentanez. "History and Evolution of Western Medicine in Thailand." Asian Biomedicine 1, 1 (June 2007): 97-101. [PDF]
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Son, Seung Ho. "Christian Revival in the Presbyterian Church of Thailand between 1900 and 1941: an Ecclesiological Analysis and Evaluation." Th.D. dissertation, University of Stellenbosch, 2004. [PDF]
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Stone, John Timothy. Boon-itt, One of God's Own. New York: Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, n.d. [PDF]
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Surachai Chumsriphan. "A Brief History of the Catholic Church in Thailand." Unpublished paper, n.d. [PDF]
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Surachai Chumsriphan. "The Great Role of Jean-Louis Vey, Apostolic Vicar of Siam (1875-1909), in the Church History of Thailand During the Reformation Period of King Rama V, the Great (1868-1910)." Ph.D. dissertation, Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, 1990. [PDF]
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Swearer, Don. "'Missionaries, Martyrs, and Political Change in Northern Thailand in the Late 19th Century' A talk by Dr. Don Swearer." Unpublished paper, Informal Northern Thai Group, Chiang Mai, 2004. [PDF]
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Taylor, Hugh. "Kru Muang of Thailand." In Unforgettable Disciples, 31-38. New York: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, [1942]. [PDF]
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Walker, Anthony R. "The First Lahu (Muhsur) Christians: A Community in Northern Thailand." Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 11, 2 (July 2010): 7-28. [PDF]
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Wan Petchsongkram, "Talk in the Shade of the Bo Tree: Some Observations on Communicating the Christian Faith in Thailand." Translated and edited by Frances E. Hudgins. Typescript, n.d. [PDF]
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Wells, Kenneth E. "Kru Sri Moh of Thailand." In Unforgettable Disciples, 101-108. New York: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, [1942]. [PDF]
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Wells, Kenneth E. Theravada Buddhism and Protestant Christianity. Sinclair Thompson Memorial Lectures, 14-15 November 1963. Bangkok: Chareon Tham Printing Press, 1963. [PDF]
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Wheeler, W. Reginald, ed. The Crisis Decade: A History of the Foreign Missionary Work of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 1937-1947. New York: Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1950. Chapter 9, "Siam: The War and the Missionary Task, 118-140. [PDF]
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Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. "Thailand" and "Thailand: Mission History,” n.d. Unpublished papers, at Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (www.welsnet). Downloaded 2 May 2014. [PDF]
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Wongsak, Joseph C. "Hope of Bangkok Church." In The New Apostolic Churches, edited by C. Peter Wagner, 271-79. Ventura, California: Regal, 1998. [PDF]
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Zimmerman, Walter A. Christianity in Thailand. Bangkok: Printed by G.D.P. Weeraratne at the Stationers Printing Press, 1941. [PDF]
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Philip J. Hughes Sources
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Hughes, Philip J. "Accepting the Christian Faith in Thailand." Pointers: Bulletin of the Christian Research Association 6, 4 (December 1996): 6-9. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. "The Assimilation of Christianity in the Thai Culture." Religion 14 (1984): 313-336. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. "The Incarnation and Communication in Thailand." South East Asia Journal of Theology 23, 2 (October 1982): 174-181. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. "Incarnation and the Communication of the Gospel in Thailand." In To What Extent? Incarnation and the Thai Context, edited by Herbert R. Swanson, 24-33. Chiang Mai: Payap College Manuscript Division, 1982. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. "The Multi-Dimensional Issue of Culture and Christian Ministry," Journal of Contemporary Ministry 1 (May 2015): 6-16. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. Proclamation and Response: A Study of the History of the Christian Faith in Northern Thailand. Chiang Mai: Manuscript Division, Payap College, 1982. 2d ed. Chiang Mai: Payap University Archives, 1989. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. "Reflections on the Third Lausanne International Researchers' Conference: 4-8 September 2001, Chiang Mai, Thailand." Pointers: Christian Research Association Bulletin 11, 4 (December 2001): 13-16. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. "Religion and Culture: Theological and Sociological Reflections." Pointers: Christian Research Association Bulletin 17, 3 (September 2007): 13-16. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. "A Survey of Christian Youth Related to The Church of Christ in Thailand (A Draft)." Unpublished paper, 2006. [PDF]
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Hughes, Philip J. "The Use of Actual Beliefs in Contextualizing Theology." East Asia Journal of Theology 2, 2 (1984): 251-258. [PDF]​
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