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The tenth parallel - the type of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is a physical and ideological front series where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world's 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do 60 % of the world's 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where in fact the two religions meet; their face is shaping the future of each faith, and of entire societies as well.An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has put in days gone by seven years journeying between the equator and the tenth parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The reports she tells in The Tenth Parallel show us that religious issues are also issues about land, normal water, oil, and other natural resources, and this local and tribal issues are often shaped by religious ideas. Most importantly, she makes clear that, for the individuals 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.An urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly ability, The Tenth Parallel can be an essential work about the issues over religious beliefs, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the globe in the years to come.
