The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

Griswold, Eliza

ISBN 10: 0374273189 / ISBN 13: 9780374273187

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2010

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8vo, 317 pp.

Seller Inventory # 100464

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374273189
• ISBN 13: 9780374273187
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion

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Synopsis

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 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,

About the Author

Eliza Griswold, a fellow at the New America Foundation, received a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Her journalism has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper's Magazine, among others. A 2007 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, she was awarded the first Robert I. Friedman Award for investigative reporting. A collection of her poems, Wideawake Field, was published by FSG in 2007.