Hmong Christianity

Hmong communities have been converting to Christianity (primarily Protestant denominsations but also Catholic to a lesser degree) across different parts of Southern China, Southeast Asia and worldwide diasporas since the turn of the 20th Century, often entire villages and clans at once. This data entry is primarily focused on Southeast Asia, based on the author's extensive fieldwork in Vietnam. Hmong Christians in China and US diasporas faced different socio-economic contexts, but share enough religious common ground to justify representing them in this single entry. There are also hundreds of thousands of Christians among the 'Miao' national minority of China, of which the Hmong are just a subgroup. While this diverse national minority shares some cultural and linguistic traits, most Miao Christians belong to other subgroups which are mutually unintelligible with Hmong language.