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001			ASIN0801450446
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008			150603s2012 xxu eng d
020			_a0801450446 (hardcover) _c$39.95
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050	0	4	_aBP43.P18
082	0	4	_a371.077095491 _bBAN 2013
100	1		_aBano, Masooda.
245	1	4	_aThe rational believer : _bchoices and decisions in the madrasas of pakistan / _cMasooda Bano.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bCornell University Press, _c2012.
300			_a272 p. ; _c24 cm.
520			_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's work 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.
650		0	_aFaith and reason--Islam
650		0	_aIslamic religious education
650		0	_aMadrasahs
650		0	_aPakistan
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801450446/chopaconline-20
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