Conversion among Chinese Overseas Students in the US: A Choice Model on Individual Characteristics and Organizational Traits

After people migrate to a different religious landscape, they will have multiple candidate religions choose from, and some may convert new religion. This study argues that both individual-level characteristics religion’s organizational traits are involved in conversion. Using cross-sectional samples of Chinese overseas students scholars the US 2018 (n = 1911), we deployed mixed multinomial models demonstrate how conversion, measured as intergenerational personal changes, is associated with factors religions. We found choice between Christianity, Buddhism, folk religion, compared no unique characteristics. For traits, missionary intensity organized activity generally higher likelihood distinguishes levels operating mechanism conversion points out an interactive heterogenous model for individuals’ various competing