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Tenth Parallel (Paperback)
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A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the
Christian and Muslim worlds
The tenth parallel--the line of latitude seven hundred miles north
of the equator--is a geographical and ideological front line where
Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3
billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent
of the world's 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing
megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where the
two religions meet; their encounter is shaping the future of each
faith, and of whole societies as well.
An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold
has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and
the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in
Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in
"The Tenth Parallel "show us that religious conflicts are also
conflicts about land, water, oil, and other natural resources, and
that local and tribal issues are often shaped by religious ideas.
Above all, she makes clear that, for the people she writes about,
one's sense of God is shaped by one's place on earth; along the
tenth parallel, faith is geographic and demographic.
An urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly
power, "The Tenth Parallel "is an essential work about the
conflicts over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will
remake the world in the years to come.
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