LEADER 04408nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910827627103321 005 20240416114239.0 010 $a0-8014-6433-1 010 $a0-8014-6386-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801463860 035 $a(CKB)2670000000184621 035 $a(OCoLC)794167485 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10547368 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000647378 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11415724 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647378 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10593921 035 $a(PQKB)11682366 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499249 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138312 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28707 035 $a(DE-B1597)478289 035 $a(OCoLC)979747748 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801463860 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138312 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10547368 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681762 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000184621 100 $a20110907d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rational believer $echoices and decisions in the madrasas of Pakistan /$fMasooda Bano 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50480-6 311 $a0-8014-5044-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note on Transliteration and Spelling -- $tGlossary -- $t1. Religion and Reason: A New Institutionalist Perspective -- $tPart I. Institutional Change and Stability -- $t2. Religion and Change: Oxford and the Madrasas of South Asia -- $t3. Explaining the Stickiness: State-Madrasa Engagement In South Asia -- $t4. Organization of Religious Hierarchy: Competition or Cooperation? -- $tPart II. Determinants of Demand for Informal Institutions -- $t5. Formation of a Preference: Why Join a Madrasa? -- $t6. Logic of Adaptive Preference: Islam and Western Feminism -- $tPart III: Informal Institutions and Collective Outcomes -- $t7. The Missing Free-Rider: Religious Rewards -- $t8. Exclusionary Institutional Preference: The Logic of Jihad -- $t9. Informal Institutions and Development -- $tAppendix: Research Methodology -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aIslamic 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 staged an armed resistance against the state for its support of the "war on terror," reinforced concerns about madrasas' role in regional and global jihad. By 2006 madrasas registered with Pakistan's five regulatory boards for religious schools enrolled over one million male and 200,000 female students. In The Rational Believer, Masooda Bano draws on rich interview, ethnographic, and survey data, as well as fieldwork conducted in madrasas throughout the country to explore the network of Pakistani 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 viable course of action.Bano works shows that beliefs are rational and that religious believers look to maximize utility in ways not captured by classical rational choice. She applies analytical tools from the New Institutional Economics to explain apparent contradictions in the madrasa system-for example, how thousands of young Pakistani women now demand the national adoption of traditional sharia law, despite its highly restrictive limits on female agency, and do so from their location in Islamic schools for girls that were founded only a generation ago. 606 $aFaith and reason$xIslam 606 $aIslamic religious education$zPakistan 606 $aMadrasahs$zPakistan 615 0$aFaith and reason$xIslam. 615 0$aIslamic religious education 615 0$aMadrasahs 676 $a371.077095491 700 $aBano$b Masooda$f1973-$01602048 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827627103321 996 $aThe rational believer$93925872 997 $aUNINA