The material presented in this article comes from my ethnographic fieldwork.9 I
shall explore how social divisions and conflicts can be traced back to the different,
sometimes contrasting, perceptions of Protestantism and of the act of conversion
by the Hmong. I shall show how these views interrelate and interact, how this in
turn affects the outcome of and/or resistance to conversion, and, last but not least,
how both conversion and resistance to Christianity are related to various dilemmas