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the Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions Madrasas of Pakistan
the Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions Madrasas of Pakistan

the Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions Madrasas of Pakistan

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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.
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