From ‘Secular’ to ‘Islamo-secular’ Bangladesh: Mapping the constitutional trajectories through Law, religion, and performing arts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis studies the constitutional and legal transformation of Bangladesh from a secular democracy (1972) to a secular state with Islam as the state religion, 'Islamosecularism ' (2011).The state claims this self-styled secularity to be congruent to the sensibility of its majority Muslim citizenry, with no practical impact on the legal system.However, Islamists, secularists, as well as others not bracketed by those labels consider this religious-secular identity as an aberration.The majority Muslim attribute driven by cultural essentialism reinforces the stereotypes of 'peace-loving Muslims', 'raging Islamists', and 'anti-Islamic liberals'.This thesis argues that the state invokes the binary of 'Islamism v Secularism' to shield its political convenience and divisive role.In order to deconstruct these static identities, the thesis studies performing arts as a field of contesting identity markers of the people of Bangladesh.Different genres of performing arts, both religious and non-religious, portray dayto-day lived relations of people, their hopes, aspirations, and ethos.Therefore studying performing arts in conjunction with the political and legal trajectories leading to Islamo-secularism allows this thesis to comprehensively map the changing public sphere in Bangladesh.It identifies how Islamo-secularism directly impacts the society and legal system and how Islamists and secularists are constituted and rooted in Bangladesh.The thesis concludes that Islamo-secularism though not tantamount to theocracy, erodes the constitutional guarantee of equality and dignity for all citizens regardless of religious belief.While the thesis does not aim to provide a way out from the crossroad of Islamo-secularism, it attempts to transcend the boundary of otherness by engaging with divergent performing arts. RésuméCette thèse étudie les transformations constitutionnelles et législatives qui ont fait passer le Bangladesh d'une démocratie laïque (1972) à un État laïc dont l'Islam est la religion d'État, soit une « Islamo-laïcité » (2011).L'État avance que cette conception unique de la laïcité s'accorde à la sensibilité de sa population,Table of
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".