The Rational Believer : : Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan /

The Rational Believer : : Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan / / Masooda Bano.

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Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks since the events of 9/11. In Pakistan, the 2007 siege by government forces of Islamabad's Red Mosque and its madrasa complex, whose imam and students st...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Bano, Masooda,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 2 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Transliteration and Spelling
  • Glossary
  • 1. Religion and Reason: A New Institutionalist Perspective
  • Part I. Institutional Change and Stability
  • 2. Religion and Change: Oxford and the Madrasas of South Asia
  • 3. Explaining the Stickiness: State-Madrasa Engagement In South Asia
  • 4. Organization of Religious Hierarchy: Competition or Cooperation?
  • Part II. Determinants of Demand for Informal Institutions
  • 5. Formation of a Preference: Why Join a Madrasa?
  • 6. Logic of Adaptive Preference: Islam and Western Feminism
  • Part III: Informal Institutions and Collective Outcomes
  • 7. The Missing Free-Rider: Religious Rewards
  • 8. Exclusionary Institutional Preference: The Logic of Jihad
  • 9. Informal Institutions and Development
  • Appendix: Research Methodology
  • References
  • Index

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