評《走向伊斯蘭：印尼客家華人成為穆斯林之經驗與過程》

Abstract

本書評首先強調本書之於客家研究、東南亞研究、伊斯蘭研究的開創性貢獻；然後，就宗教改宗與族群認同的兩大核心課題，作者所採取的過程模式典範及解構族群的本質化論述，予以說明；最後，針對客家人與猶太人離散經驗的相似性，提出客家研究對全球族群與文化研究的可能貢獻。

his book review first emphasizes the ground-breaking contributions of this book to Hakka studies, Southeast Asian studies, and Islamic studies; second, deliberates the author's theoretical paradigm of the process model to religious conversion and deconstructionist approach to the essentializing discourses of ethnicity regarding Islam and Chineseness; finally, pinpoints the similarity between the Hakka and Jewish peoples' diasporic experiences and expects the possible contribution of Hakka studies to global ethnic and cultural studies.