The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline Between Christianity and Islam

Synopsis

The tenth parallel - the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator - is the front line where Christianity and Islam collide. Around this line, in buzzing megacities and swarming jungle from Ivory Coast to Nigeria, Sudan to Eritrea, Somalia to Indonesia, both religions are experiencing huge and sometimes violent reawakenings. Eliza Griswold, award-winning journalist and poet, has spent the past seven years travelling along this line of confrontation, asking if it is possible to determine where belief ends and secular violence begins, the role that struggles over scarce resources plays, and how the encounters between these two faiths is shaping the future.