{"product_id":"the-tenth-parallel-dispatches-from-the-fault-line-between-christianity-and-islam-9781250269782","title":"The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250269782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Eliza Griswold","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648733114524,"sku":"9781250269782","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6a9967e8-01b6-4bd2-b5ee-923a07ae705b.jpg?v=1603870874","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-tenth-parallel-dispatches-from-the-fault-line-between-christianity-and-islam-9781250269782","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}