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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 / Masooda Bano.
Author
Bano, Masooda.
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.

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Description
xii, 250 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Madrasahs > Pakistan
  • Islamic religious education > Pakistan
  • Faith and reason > Islam
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFE 12-4746.
ISBN
  • 9780801450440 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0801450446 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011037595
OCLC
752910710
Author
Bano, Masooda.
Title
The rational believer : choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan / Masooda Bano.
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-244) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-4746.
JFE 12-4746
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