The Tenth Parallel Pdf Summary Reviews By Eliza Griswold

The Tenth Parallel Pdf Summary

The 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.

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Jaylia

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautifully written eye-opener
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2010

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Both insightful and intrepid, Eliza Griswold journeyed through Africa and Asia along the tenth parallel, the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator where nearly 25% of the world’s Muslims and Christians compete for resources, converts and political power. A poet with an ear for simple but evocative language, Griswold takes the reader through the dust of encroaching desertification as she attends an indigenous Indonesian wedding, meets with African rape victims, sits with a Muslim religious leader as he tries to resolve local disputes, and observes an election where voters line up in a barren field behind the candidate of their choice. After reading about her meetings with the homosexual and Muslim denouncing Anglican Bishop Akinola of Nigeria I still have no sympathy with his views, but I now have some understanding of why he thinks the way he does. Griswold’s own empathy serves her well; believers on both sides of the religious divide open up to her. As an agnostic daughter of the former presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Griswold even shares a flash of private connection with crusading evangelist Franklin Graham when she meets him in Africa–though they have very different ideas they are both PKs, preacher’s kids, with childhoods that were a struggle between belief and rebellion. My copy of THE TENTH PARALLEL is tabbed with more than 30 post-it notes marking sections I thought were so perceptive and illuminating I knew I’d want to read them again.

Ralph Adam Fin

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely brilliant!!
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2012

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The Tenth Parallel is a superb, largely first-hand account about the universal and perpetual struggle for power. As Eliza Griswold points out, the world’s two major religions abut — much as do storm fronts — at the tenth parallel, across Africa and Asia. Sadly, the media largely glosses over the intricacies that enweb the conflict. As a result, few folks, whether in or out of government, have a firm grasp on the forces in play. Of course, perhaps a “firm” grasp is not possible, but it must be more tight than it is if we are going to survive in this century. Griswold’s superb book is not only must reading, but a page-turner as well. She writes with both incredible insight and aplomb. I wish that our policy makers would read it; perhaps some have and will–most, however, spend all their time either running for office or seeking the politico to whom to hitch their careers (preparing for the time when they can move through the revolving door to private-sector fortune)

A. Braswell

5.0 out of 5 stars An informative and easily read book
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2012

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I heard about the book when the author was a guest on the National Cathedral Forum some time ago and wrote down her name and the title of the book so that I could purchase it the next time I looked at Amazon. I knew next to nothing about the ninth and tenth parallels of which Miss Griswold wrote. I had heard of the uprisings in that part of the world, but her take is quite different from them. She writes of people and places that are not usually in the news. The book is one that I recommend to anyone who would like to know more about Africa and its people and why they live as they do. The first couple of chapters are necessary, but the book takes on life in the rest.

About Eliza Griswold Author Of The Tenth Parallel pdf Book

Eliza Griswold Author Of The Tenth Parallel pdf Book is an American journalist and poet. She was a fellow at the New America Foundation from 2008 to 2010 and won a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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