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Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
August 2010
On Sale: August 17, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 0374273189
EAN: 9780374273187
Hardcover
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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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