The Tenth Parallel Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam

Eliza Griswold, Tavia Gilbert

eAudio - 2010

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. 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 sto...ries she tells in The Tenth Parallel show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about land, water, oil, and other natural resources... more