The tenth parallel
Subtitle: dispatches from the fault line between Christianity and Islam
By: Eliza Griswold.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780374273187
Subjects: Islam -- Relations -- Christianity; Christianity and other religions -- Islam
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.