The rational believer
Subtitle: choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan
By: Masooda Bano
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801450440
Subjects: Faith and reason; Islamic religious education; Madrasahs; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Religion and reason : a new institutionalist perspective; title: Religion and change : Oxford and the madrasas of South Asia; title: Explaining the stickiness : state-madrasa engagement in South Asia; title: Organization of religious hierarchy : competition or cooperation?; title: Formation of a preference : why join a madrasa?; title: Logic of adaptive preference : Islam and western feminism; title: The missing free-rider : religious rewards and collective action; title: Exclusionary institutional preference : the logic of jihad; title: Informal institutions and development.