The Tenth Parallel Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
The Tenth Parallel Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
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A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe tenth parallelthe line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equatoris a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the worlds 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the worlds 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,
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ISBN13: 9780374273187
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010