By Eliza Griswold
ISBN-10: 0374273189
ISBN-13: 9780374273187
A riveting research of the jagged fault line among the Christian and Muslim worldsThe 10th parallel—the line of range seven-hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological entrance line the place Christianity and Islam collide. greater than 1/2 the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims reside alongside the 10th parallel; so do sixty percentage of the world’s 2 billion Christians. the following, within the humming megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is the place the 2 religions meet; their stumble upon is shaping the way forward for each one religion, and of entire societies in addition. An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the previous seven years touring among the equator and the 10th parallel: in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The tales she tells within the 10th Parallel express us that non secular conflicts also are conflicts approximately land, water, oil, and different normal assets, and that neighborhood and tribal matters are usually formed through non secular principles. in particular, she makes transparent that, for the folks she writes approximately, one’s feel of God is formed via one’s position in the world; alongside the 10th parallel, religion is geographic and demographic. An pressing exam of the connection among religion and worldly energy, The 10th Parallel is a necessary paintings concerning the conflicts over faith, nationhood and usual assets that would remake the area within the years yet to come.
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NOVIANA AND THE FIRING SQUAD 21. BEGINNING ON THE WIND 22. “NO MORE HAPPY SUNDAYS” 23. A WORLD MADE NEW 24. THE CLASH WITHIN 25. “ALLAHCRACY” MALAYSIA 26. THE RACE TO SAVE THE LAST LOST SOULS 27. THE WEDDING 28. THE RIVER 29. THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD PHILIPPINES 30. A KIDNAPPING 31. FROM TWO THOUSAND FEET 32. REVERSION 33. VICTORY OR MARTYRDOM 34. TO WITNESS EPILOGUE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX THE TENTH PARALLEL PROLOGUE The chief was spending Easter Sunday in his hut, which smelled of stale smoke from a cooking fire and of something more glandular: panic.
Yet these small street fights, infused with deeper hatred, have often given way to massacres in churches, hospitals, and mosques. With each side determined to eradicate the other, the skirmishes have assumed the rhetoric of faith-based genocide; one Christian writer called Nigeria’s Muslims “cockroaches,” a deliberate reminder of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Blessed with some of the world’s richest oil reserves, Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa’s major petroleum producer. S. ”2 But if Nigeria is one of the continent’s wealthiest and most influential powers, it is also one of its most corrupt democracies.
Three decades ago, while Sudan’s current president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, was a military general stationed on this border, the Khartoum-based northern government perfected the methods of attack, using the paramilitary horsemen called the Janjawiid, whom it was now deploying in Darfur. Todaj faced this same threat, but other than Roger Winter, very few knew anything about the impending disaster. On BBC radio, Paduot heard much talk about Darfur. Although the same thing was happening here along the border, it rarely made international news.
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