{"product_id":"the-tenth-parallel-dispatches-from-the-fault-line-between-christianity-and-islam-paperback","title":"The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEliza Griswold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Tenth Parallel \u003c\/i\u003eshow 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly power, \u003ci\u003eThe Tenth Parallel \u003c\/i\u003eis an essential work about the conflicts over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the world in the years to come.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEliza Griswold, a fellow at the New America Foundation, received a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Her journalism has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eWideawake\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eField\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by FSG in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772563161376,"sku":"9781250269782","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9bbc5b33ff4eb79e5179fbbb35fbf5e1.webp?v=1780408584","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-tenth-parallel-dispatches-from-the-fault-line-between-christianity-and-islam-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}