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Research paper thumbnail of Ethnic Minority Poverty in Vietnam

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Điều khiển các thiết bị điện từ xa qua mạng Internet

Research paper thumbnail of HÀN MẶC TỬ (1912 – 1940): A New Moon for the Season of the New Evangelization in Vietnamese Catholicism

Kritika Kultura, 2015

This article investigates how Catholicism has had to evolve and adapt in order to sustain itself ... more This article investigates how Catholicism has had to evolve and adapt in order to sustain itself in Thailand. As Siam/Thailand developed through economic, political and cultural interactions with Western powers, Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular served as a site on which Thai national identity was forged in response to these interactions. Christianity was an 'other' against which Thai Buddhist identity coalesced yet the appeal of first Catholic and later Protestant missionary education was very strong. This article combines interpretive historical method and analysis of contemporary shifts that reflect a more assertive Thai Catholic Church. In so doing, the article offers a new reading of the place of Catholicism as a minority religion that is both aware of the risks of overtly challenging Buddhist nationalism and also confident of its place within the Thai cultural imaginary and the global Catholic networks across Asia.

Research paper thumbnail of Ethnic Minority Poverty in Vietnam

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Điều khiển các thiết bị điện từ xa qua mạng Internet

Research paper thumbnail of HÀN MẶC TỬ (1912 – 1940): A New Moon for the Season of the New Evangelization in Vietnamese Catholicism

Kritika Kultura, 2015

This article investigates how Catholicism has had to evolve and adapt in order to sustain itself ... more This article investigates how Catholicism has had to evolve and adapt in order to sustain itself in Thailand. As Siam/Thailand developed through economic, political and cultural interactions with Western powers, Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular served as a site on which Thai national identity was forged in response to these interactions. Christianity was an 'other' against which Thai Buddhist identity coalesced yet the appeal of first Catholic and later Protestant missionary education was very strong. This article combines interpretive historical method and analysis of contemporary shifts that reflect a more assertive Thai Catholic Church. In so doing, the article offers a new reading of the place of Catholicism as a minority religion that is both aware of the risks of overtly challenging Buddhist nationalism and also confident of its place within the Thai cultural imaginary and the global Catholic networks across Asia.

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