What led Thai Buddhist background believers to become Christians: A study of one church in Bangkok

Abstract

Few studies have been done on factors relating to conversion of Buddhist background believers to Christianity, and there have been few qualitative studies on this subject. This limited qualitative study of factors relating to Buddhist background believers to Christianity focuses on the experiences of seven people in one evangelical church in Bangkok. The results find that three major factors contributed to conversion: dissatisfaction/incongruence, contact with Christians, and an encounter with the supernatural.

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conversion Buddhist Thailand supernatural qualitative research

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