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.