Edwin Zehner
Biographic Data
| ID | 654948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin Zehner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Zehner |
| SIGNATURE | ZEHNER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Walailak University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pain-free Songs in the Evangelical Approach to Suffering
OKH Rising: The Rise of the “On Knowing Humanity” Project in the Context of Today’s Anthropology
When the initiative eventually named the “On Knowing Humanity Project” was first announced, the present author was concerned about potentially negative impacts on the small but growing community of Christian anthropologists who were beginning to find their place in the discipline after decades of sidelining. Those concerns turned out to be misplaced, as the initiative has been conducted professionally and intelligently. The present article outlin…
"Comment on the Article “Christian Pastors and Child Witches in Kinshasa, DRC" by Robert J. Priest, Abel Ngolo and Timothy Stabell
One of the great tragedies in late 20 th and early 21 st century African Christianity is the abusive treatment of orphans, young children, elderly widows, and other relatively defenseless people in the name of "protection against witchcraft" (e.g., Ashforth 2005 plus the present article). This treatment is often meted out by the very church pastors and lay leaders whom the Bible urges to devote themselves to improving their church members' social…
Missionaries and Anthropology
The relationships between missionaries and anthropology have often been fraught with tensions. However, the nature of those tensions has changed over the years. Recently there has been an increased anthropological interest in the study of missions, a development that corresponds with the growth of interest in postcolonial studies and in global Christianities. The early parts of this entry focus primarily on relations between anthropology and Prot…
Offutt, Stephen: New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa
Anthropos , Seite 288 - 289
Fleming, Kenneth: Buddhist-Christian Encounter in Contemporary Thailand
Anthropos , Seite 615 - 616
The church, the monastery and the politician: Perils of entrepreneurial leadership in post-1970s Thailand
In recent decades, Thailand has seen the development of new styles of social and political organisation whose effects can be seen across religious and confessional lines. Among them are charismatically led large-scale organisations emulating the style of large-scale businesses. The article ‘triangulates’ this style via brief case studies of the Thai Rak Thai Party (now the Phuea Thai Party), the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist meditation movement an…
The Dalai Lamas: A Visual History
Leonard W.J. van der Kujip: The idea of Tulku (sprul sku) and the Genesis of the Dalai Lamas as a Religious and Institutional-political Concept Shen Weirong: 1st Dalai Lama Amy Heller: 2nd Dalai Lama Nina Kollmar Paulenz: 3rd and 4th Dalai Lama Kurtis Schaeffer: 5th Dalai Lama Erberto Lo Bue: 6th Dalai Lama Matthew Kapstein: 7th Dalai Lama and His Relations to the Qing Court Derek F. Maher: 8th Dalai Lama Derek F. Maher: 9th to 12th Dalai Lama El…
Orthodox Hybridities: Anti-Syncretism and Localization in the Evangelical Christianity of Thailand
At the turn of the twenty-first century, evangelicals employ a brand of anti-syncretism that incorporates a substantial amount of hybridity. This creativity inside a framework of seeming inflexibility is one of the things that helps evangelical Christianity localize while "holding its shape." It also enables conversions to be grounded in idiosyncratic experience while enabling those conversions to present as orthodox. Employing interviews with et…
Thai Protestants and Local Supernaturalism: Changing Configurations
Although nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries in Siam tried to debunk local spirit beliefs and witchcraft accounts, they and their actions were perceived in terms of local supernaturalist frameworks. Late twentieth-century Thai Christians, supernaturalists themselves, have reclassified local spirit activity through their own Christian frameworks, using local vocabularies of spirit phenomena but retaining master categories of interpretation …
Merit, Man and Ministry: Traditional Thai Hierarchies in a Contemporary Church
Reform Symbolism of a Thai Middle–Class Sect: The Growth and Appeal of the Thammakai Movement
The Thammakai movement in Thailand has won increasing attention over the past decade for its popularity, for the devotion of its supporters and the size of their contributions, and for its links with influential individuals in the Thai government, army, and business communities. This suburban monastery's ability to draw a congregation of 50,000 participants each year for its most publicized annual religious observance is perhaps unprecedented in …
Social Honor and Systems of Meaning: A Comment Inspired by Hatch
Orthodox Hybridities: Anti-Syncretism and Localization in the Evangelical Christianity of Thailand
At the turn of the twenty-first century, evangelicals employ a brand of anti-syncretism that incorporates a substantial amount of hybridity. This creativity inside a framework of seeming inflexibility is one of the things that helps evangelical Christianity localize while "holding its shape." It also enables conversions to be grounded in idiosyncratic experience while enabling those conversions to present as orthodox. Employing interviews with et…
Reform Symbolism of a Thai Middle–Class Sect: The Growth and Appeal of the Thammakai Movement
The Thammakai movement in Thailand has won increasing attention over the past decade for its popularity, for the devotion of its supporters and the size of their contributions, and for its links with influential individuals in the Thai government, army, and business communities. This suburban monastery's ability to draw a congregation of 50,000 participants each year for its most publicized annual religious observance is perhaps unprecedented in …
Reform Symbolism of a Thai Middle–Class Sect: The Growth and Appeal of the Thammakai Movement
The Thammakai movement in Thailand has won increasing attention over the past decade for its popularity, for the devotion of its supporters and the size of their contributions, and for its links with influential individuals in the Thai government, army, and business communities. This suburban monastery's ability to draw a congregation of 50,000 participants each year for its most publicized annual religious observance is perhaps unprecedented in …
Social Honor and Systems of Meaning: A Comment Inspired by Hatch
Merit, Man and Ministry: Traditional Thai Hierarchies in a Contemporary Church
Thai Protestants and Local Supernaturalism: Changing Configurations
Although nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries in Siam tried to debunk local spirit beliefs and witchcraft accounts, they and their actions were perceived in terms of local supernaturalist frameworks. Late twentieth-century Thai Christians, supernaturalists themselves, have reclassified local spirit activity through their own Christian frameworks, using local vocabularies of spirit phenomena but retaining master categories of interpretation …
The Dalai Lamas: A Visual History
Leonard W.J. van der Kujip: The idea of Tulku (sprul sku) and the Genesis of the Dalai Lamas as a Religious and Institutional-political Concept Shen Weirong: 1st Dalai Lama Amy Heller: 2nd Dalai Lama Nina Kollmar Paulenz: 3rd and 4th Dalai Lama Kurtis Schaeffer: 5th Dalai Lama Erberto Lo Bue: 6th Dalai Lama Matthew Kapstein: 7th Dalai Lama and His Relations to the Qing Court Derek F. Maher: 8th Dalai Lama Derek F. Maher: 9th to 12th Dalai Lama El…
Orthodox Hybridities: Anti-Syncretism and Localization in the Evangelical Christianity of Thailand
At the turn of the twenty-first century, evangelicals employ a brand of anti-syncretism that incorporates a substantial amount of hybridity. This creativity inside a framework of seeming inflexibility is one of the things that helps evangelical Christianity localize while "holding its shape." It also enables conversions to be grounded in idiosyncratic experience while enabling those conversions to present as orthodox. Employing interviews with et…
The church, the monastery and the politician: Perils of entrepreneurial leadership in post-1970s Thailand
In recent decades, Thailand has seen the development of new styles of social and political organisation whose effects can be seen across religious and confessional lines. Among them are charismatically led large-scale organisations emulating the style of large-scale businesses. The article ‘triangulates’ this style via brief case studies of the Thai Rak Thai Party (now the Phuea Thai Party), the Wat Phra Dhammakaya Buddhist meditation movement an…
Fleming, Kenneth: Buddhist-Christian Encounter in Contemporary Thailand
Anthropos , Seite 615 - 616
Offutt, Stephen: New Centers of Global Evangelicalism in Latin America and Africa
Anthropos , Seite 288 - 289
Missionaries and Anthropology
The relationships between missionaries and anthropology have often been fraught with tensions. However, the nature of those tensions has changed over the years. Recently there has been an increased anthropological interest in the study of missions, a development that corresponds with the growth of interest in postcolonial studies and in global Christianities. The early parts of this entry focus primarily on relations between anthropology and Prot…
"Comment on the Article “Christian Pastors and Child Witches in Kinshasa, DRC" by Robert J. Priest, Abel Ngolo and Timothy Stabell
One of the great tragedies in late 20 th and early 21 st century African Christianity is the abusive treatment of orphans, young children, elderly widows, and other relatively defenseless people in the name of "protection against witchcraft" (e.g., Ashforth 2005 plus the present article). This treatment is often meted out by the very church pastors and lay leaders whom the Bible urges to devote themselves to improving their church members' social…
Pain-free Songs in the Evangelical Approach to Suffering
OKH Rising: The Rise of the “On Knowing Humanity” Project in the Context of Today’s Anthropology
When the initiative eventually named the “On Knowing Humanity Project” was first announced, the present author was concerned about potentially negative impacts on the small but growing community of Christian anthropologists who were beginning to find their place in the discipline after decades of sidelining. Those concerns turned out to be misplaced, as the initiative has been conducted professionally and intelligently. The present article outlin…
Sociology (11 works) · History (8 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (6 works) · Buddhism (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works)