'Her dispatches are compelling. She writes beautifully . . . and explains, more than any newspaper headline, what has gone wrong' Michael Binyon, The Times
The tenth parallel - the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is the front line where Christianity and Islam collide. Here, from Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia to Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, both religions are experiencing huge and sometimes violent reawakenings.
Award-winning journalist Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years travelling this area and meeting its people, asking where belief ends and secular conflict begins, and examining how encounters between faiths will shape the future.
'A fascinating journey . . . full of arresting stories woven around a provocative issue, which Griswold investigates through individual lives rather than caricatures or abstractions' Linda Robinson, The New York Times
'The author brings to her book a sharp eye for telling details and a keen sense of place ... she visits some of the riskiest places on the planet and tracks down terrorists, warlords, renegade priests and aspiring Christian martyrs' Michael Mewshaw, Washington Post
'Her book is a richly textured fugue that dramatizes the dizzying interplay between notions - faith, morality, identity - and nations' Julie Cline, Los Angeles Times
'Her dispatches are compelling. She writes beautifully . . . and explains, more than any newspaper headline, what has gone wrong' Michael Binyon, The Times
The tenth parallel - the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is the front line where Christianity and Islam collide. Here, from Nigeria, Sudan and Somalia to Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, both religions are experiencing huge and sometimes violent reawakenings.
Award-winning journalist Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years travelling this area and meeting its people, asking where belief ends and secular conflict begins, and examining how encounters between faiths will shape the future.
'A fascinating journey . . . full of arresting stories woven around a provocative issue, which Griswold investigates through individual lives rather than caricatures or abstractions' Linda Robinson, The New York Times
'The author brings to her book a sharp eye for telling details and a keen sense of place ... she visits some of the riskiest places on the planet and tracks down terrorists, warlords, renegade priests and aspiring Christian martyrs' Michael Mewshaw, Washington Post
'Her book is a richly textured fugue that dramatizes the dizzying interplay between notions - faith, morality, identity - and nations' Julie Cline, Los Angeles Times
Eliza Griswold received a 2011 Anthony J. Lukas prize for her New York Times Bestselling Book The Tenth Parallel. She also received a 2010 Rome Prize from The American Academy in Rome for her poetry. Having won awards for both her non-fiction and her poems, she is currently a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, she reports on religion, conflict and human rights. Her first book of poems, Wideawake Field, was published in 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux and The Tenth Parallel, an examination of Christianity and Islam in Africa and Asia, also published by FSG, was released in the fall of 2010. Her reportage and poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Harpers, The New Republic, among many others.
Her dispatches are compelling. She writes beautifully ... and
explains more than any newspaper headline, what has gone wrong
*The Times*
A fascinating journey ... full of arresting stories woven around a
provocative issue, which Griswold investigates through individual
lives rather than caricatures or abstractions
*New York Times*
Fresh and arresting
*Independent*
The author brings to her book a sharp eye for telling details and a
keen sense of place ... she visits some of the riskiest places on
the planet and tracks down terrorists, warlords, renegade priests
and aspiring Christian martyrs
*Washington Post*
Revolutionary
*Desmond Tutu*
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