The rational believer : choices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan /

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In this work, Masooda Bano draws on rich interview, ethnographic, and survey data, as well as fieldwork conducted in madrasas. She maps the choices and decisions confronted by students, teachers, parents, and clerics and explains why available choices make participation in Jihad appear at times a vi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bano, Masooda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Madrasahs > Pakistan.
Islamic religious education > Pakistan.
Faith and reason > Islam.
Madrasa > Pākistān.
Islam et raison.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Islamic Studies.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
Faith and reason > Islam
Islamic religious education
Madrasahs
Medrese.
Islamischer Religionsunterricht.
Glaube.
Vernunft.
Pakistan
Pakistan.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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