The Trouble with Sauling Around

Probes the relationship between ethnicity, society, and religious conversion in late twentieth-century African American and Mexican American autobiography. It questions the often rosy views and simplistic binary conceptions of religious conversion, and takes into account the conflict authors experience in a society that marginalizes them, the manner in which religious conversion offers ethnic Americans "salvation”, and what conversion, anticonversion, and deconversion narratives tell us about the problematic effects of religion.