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Piety, music and gender transformation: reconfiguring women as culture bearing markers of modernity and nationalism in Bangladesh
The rise in an intense, textually-based piety, which has become increasingly prevalent in many circles in Bangladesh in the past decade, sees music as taking away from an ideal pious disposition, and therefore considers ...
Defining self and other: Bangladesh’s secular aspirations and its writing of islam
(© 2013 Sameeksha Trust, 2013-12)
Bangladesh’s experience with secularism has been a checkered one. Beginning with a strong constitutional mandate and political rhetoric, the word secularism has been changed, removed and restored, while Islam remains the ...
Muslim aspirations in Bangladesh: looking back and redrawing boundaries
Till 2013, political discourses in Bangladesh offered Muslims very little space other than one of two polar opposites: the ultra secular liberals or the anti-1971 and thus anti-nationalist Islamists. As Islam presented ...