Publication

2010 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

79,250 words, Guess

Page Count

317 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC297.2/8309
  • LCCBP172 .G758 2010

Description

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.

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