The rational believer choices and decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan /

Bano, Masooda, 1973-

The rational believer choices and decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan / Masooda Bano. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) maps.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



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Madrasahs--Pakistan.
Islamic religious education--Pakistan.
Faith and reason--Islam.


Electronic Books.

BP43 / .R385 2012