The Rational Believer

Author : Masooda Bano
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801464331
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rational Believer written by Masooda Bano and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Author : Masooda Bano
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801463866
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rational Believer written by Masooda Bano and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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.

Author : Masooda Bano
Publisher : Foundation Books
ISBN 13 : 9789382264880
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rational Believer written by Masooda Bano and published by Foundation Books. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bano's work shows that beliefs are rational and that religious believers look to maximize utility in ways not captured by classical rational choice.

Author : Christoph Schoenborn
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681490854
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chance or Purpose? written by Christoph Schoenborn and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cardinal Christoph Schönborn's article on evolution and creation in The New York Times launched an international controversy. Critics charged him with biblical literalism and 'creationism'. In this book, Cardinal Schönborn responds to his critics by tackling the hard questions with a carefully reasoned "theology of creation". Can we still speak intelligently of the world as 'creation' and affirm the existence of the Creator, or is God a 'delusion'? How should an informed believer read Genesis? If God exists, why is there so much injustice and suffering? Are human beings a part of nature or elevated above it? What is man's destiny? Is everything a matter of chance or can we discern purpose in human existence? In his treatment of evolution, Cardinal Schönborn distinguishes the biological theory from 'evolutionism', the ideology that tries to reduce all of reality to mindless, meaningless processes. He argues that science and a rationally grounded faith are not at odds and that what many people represent as 'science' is really a set of philosophical positions that will not withstand critical scrutiny. Chance or Purpose? directly raises the philosophical and theological issues many scientists today overlook or ignore. The result is a vigorous, frank dialogue that acknowledges the respective insights of the philosopher, the theologian and the scientist, but which calls on them to listen and to learn from each another.

Author : Mark Manolopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527522121
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Neo-Enlightenment written by Mark Manolopoulos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Neo-Enlightenment is a spirited response to the multiple and accelerating crises we face today. The provocative and ambitious work contends that we require a “radical neo-Enlightenment” to counter these systemic crises. The driving idea is that Reason must now be reclaimed as a powerful force for positive social change. Along the way, the book criticizes philosophy’s failings and restores its noble compulsion to change the world. Radical Neo-Enlightenment then criticizes conventional religion and advances a reconstructed faith that would be an ally of socially-transformative Reason. It then marks out practical core steps that would lead to rational global transformation. While the book is introductory and accessible in scope and style, it confronts and develops the thought of some of the most important subversive thinkers of the past and present.

Author : Ronald H. Nash
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780310294016
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Reason written by Ronald H. Nash and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores philosophical questions that have important implications for the truth and rationality of the Christian faith.

Author : Nicholas Everitt
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415301077
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Non-existence of God written by Nicholas Everitt and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguments for the existence of God have taken many different forms over the centuries: in The Non-Existence of God, Everitt considers all the arguments and examines the role that reason and knowledge play in the debate over God's existence.

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Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Author : Watchman Nee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
ISBN 13 : 0736302697
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Man written by Watchman Nee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 1998 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing exploration of the great transition between life and the after-life.

Author : Kevin McCain
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000468496
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epistemic Dilemmas written by Kevin McCain and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features original essays by leading epistemologists that address questions related to epistemic dilemmas from a variety of new, sometimes unexpected, angles. It seems plausible that there can be "no win" moral situations in which no matter what one does one fails some moral obligation. Is there an epistemic analog to moral dilemmas? Are there epistemically dilemmic situations—situations in which we are doomed to violate an epistemic requirement? If there are, when exactly do they arise and what can we learn from them? The contributors to this volume cover a wide variety of positions on epistemic dilemmas. The coverage ranges from discussions of the nature of epistemic dilemmas to arguments that there are no such things to suggestions for how to resolve (or at least live with) epistemic dilemmas to proposals for how thinking about epistemic dilemmas can be used to inform theorizing in other areas of epistemology. Epistemic Dilemmas will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in epistemology working on the nature of justification and evidential support, higher-order requirements, or suspension of judgment.