Abstract
The following text is based on fieldwork research in a Romani settlement situated in Eastern Slovakia. The study focuses on conversions of Roms to new religious movements, specifically to Jehovah's Witnesses.
The author analyses the mechanisms which keep the given convertist loyal to his newly acquired religion. The paper introduces a short debate on the influence of kinship on religious conversions among the Roms, and discusses theories of ethnic stigmatization and social deprivation.
The conversion of Milan is regarded mostly from the point of view of its importance for the relationships and interactions within the Romani community. It uncovers a net of actors and their relations contributing to Milan remaining a convertist.
Apart from this, the study also interprets the role of a convertist on the background of the attachment to the gadžo world showing its connection with the convertist's prestige among the Roms from his own community.