The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam
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A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe 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 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. An urgent examination of the relationship between faith and worldly power, The Tenth Parallel is an essential work about the conflicts over religion, nationhood and natural resources that will remake the world in the years to come. The Barnes & Noble Review Wherever she drops down -- Sudan, Nigeria, Somalia, or Indonesia -- Griswold doesn't reduce, or attempt to proscribe answers for specific problems. But underneath, as a reader, it's hard not to feel an urge to create secular institutions that can help a different kind of prosperity flourish and help make tolerance possible. (I found myself wishing to redouble international health care and family planning efforts -- not in the name of God but of healthy women). Griswold wants to urge us out of thinking that these conflicts are either natural or divine, and to help us begin to imagine what on Earth we might do about them.
MapPrologue 3Part One: Africa 15Nigeria1 The Rock: One 172 The Rock: Two 273 The Flood 364 Drought 415 The Tribulation 456 Modern Saints And Martyrs 547 The God Of Prosperity 578 "Races And Tribes" 66Sudan9 In The Beginning 7510 Faith And Foreign Policy 8311 "Missionary Mayonnaise" 9312 Justice 10413 Choose 11314 Spoiling The World 121Somalia15 "The Real Superpower" 12516 "They'll Kill You" 13517 Proxy 14218 "Gather Ye Men Of Tomorrow" 151Part Two: Asia 157Indonesia19 Beyond Jihad 15920 Noviana And The Firing Squad 17121 Beginning On The Wind 17822 "No More Happy Sundays" 18523 A World Made New 19224 The Clash Within 20125 "Allahcracy" 204Malaysia26 The Race To Save The Last Lost Souls 21527 The Wedding 22928 The River 23329 The Greatest Story Ever Told 236Philippines30 A Kidnapping 24331 From Two Thousand Feet 25032 Reversion 25833 Victory Or Martyrdom 26334 To Witness 268Epilogue 277Notes 285Bibliography 295Acknowledgments 301Index 303
