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A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe 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 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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The Tenth Parallel, Eliza Griswold
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- Released
- 2000
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- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The Tenth Parallel
- Subtitle
- Dispatches From The Fault Line Between Christianity And Islam
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Eliza Griswold
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 317
- ISBN10
- 0374273189
- ISBN13
- 9780374273187
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- Religious Topics, Politics, Christian Themes, USA, Africa, Suicide, African American Literature, Teenagers, Interfaith Relations
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- A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe 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 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,