The Rational Believer : : Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan / / Masooda Bano.
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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Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
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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