The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
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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. The stories she tells in The Tenth Parallelshow 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. An urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly power, The Tenth Parallelis an essential work about the conflicts over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the world in the years to come. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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Product Info
- Author
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dewey Decimal Number
- 297.28309
- EAN
- 9780374273187
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 0374273189
- Label
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Manufacturer
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Number Of Items
- 1
- Number Of Pages
- 336
- Product Group
- Book
- Product Type Name
- ABIS_BOOK
- Publication Date
- 2010-08-17
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Release Date
- 2010-08-17
- Studio
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Title
- The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
- ASIN
- 0374273189
- Sales Rank
- 28640
- Provider
- Amazon
- As of
- February 10, 2012, 5:33 pm
