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The rational believer : choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan
Title:
The rational believer : choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan
Author:
Bano, Masooda, 1973-
ISBN:
9780801450440
Publication Information:
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
xii, 250 p. ; 25 cm
Abstract:
Religion and reason : a new institutionalist perspective -- Religion and change : Oxford and the madrasas of South Asia -- Explaining the stickiness : state-madrasa engagement in South Asia -- Organization of religious hierarchy : competition or cooperation? -- Formation of a preference : why join a madrasa? -- Logic of adaptive preference : Islam and western feminism -- The missing free-rider : religious rewards and collective action -- Exclusionary institutional preference : the logic of jihad -- Informal institutions and development.
Subject:
Madrasahs -- Pakistan.
Islamic religious education -- Pakistan.
Faith and reason -- Islam.
Summary:
Religion and reason : a new institutionalist perspective -- Religion and change : Oxford and the madrasas of South Asia -- Explaining the stickiness : state-madrasa engagement in South Asia -- Organization of religious hierarchy : competition or cooperation? -- Formation of a preference : why join a madrasa? -- Logic of adaptive preference : Islam and western feminism -- The missing free-rider : religious rewards and collective action -- Exclusionary institutional preference : the logic of jihad -- Informal institutions and development.