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Santos Julia's book, Historias de las Dos Espanas (Histories of the Two Spains), covers the role of Spanish intellectuals & their historical context within Basque, Catalonian, & other Spanish nationalisms. The book leaves one with an appreciation of the cultural & ideological complexity of the formation of Catalonian nationalism, the contribution of Catalonian nationalism to the formation of an organized civil society in Spain, the social ambivalence of support of the monarchy, attitudes toward Islam, & the Jewish elements of Spain's past. In the book, it becomes clear to the reader that women did not erupt into Spanish intellectual & political life until the 20th century within the anti-Franco camp. Santos Julia's work is compared to that of Jose Alvarez Junco's Mater Dolorosa (The Suffering Mother), & the political climate for women prior to the 20th century as detailed in Pi i Margall's Las Luchas de Nuestros Dias (1882, The Conflicts of Our Times)is discussed. Other critiques of Santos Julia's book are cited. M. Pflum

This article argues that the authoritarian bias often seen in Muslim countries is not the outcome of any inherent contradiction between Islam & democracy. On the contrary, this bias -- which is empirically confirmed here -- seems to be the result of the over-representation of rentier states among the Muslim countries. The list of countries where over half the population is Muslim includes many of the biggest oil & fuel exporters on the planet. The rents coming from these natural resources allow governments to lower tax burdens whilst increasing public expenditure. This helps to disarticulate the demands of certain social groups for greater freedom & transparency. Tables, Graphs, References. Adapted from the source document.

This article describes some of the results of the research project on cyberislam and Islamic public sphere online in Spain, which is part of the R & D project: CS02011-29438-C05-01,under the title: "The Arab-Islamic world on the move: Migration, reforms, elections and their impact in Spain". This first approach explores the possibilities of social network analysis (SNA) in the study of online Islamic communities in Spain. This methodology has allowed us to obtain data from 214 Spanish Islamic cyberenvironments, which structure the network of the Islamic public sphere online in 2010. It has been possible to measure the size of the Spanish Islamic cyberspace, to visualize its structure, to establish the general characteristics of the Spanish Islamic public sphere online and identify the most influential groups by analyzing these data. Adapted from the source document.

This paper examines the legal & political justification for imposing restrictions to freedom of speech, just for the cause of protect communitarian religious belief. Through examination of some paradigmatic examples, the author makes the defense of a radical liberalism that entails the claim of a complete secular State. In this very, religious freedom must be seen as a negative liberty. Adapted from the source document.