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The Rational Believer : Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan /

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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Autor principal: Bano, Masooda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.