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The Tenth ParallelEliza Griswold

The Tenth Parallel

322 pagesFirst published 20108 editions
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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…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackPicador20193369781250269782
EditionPenguin Books, Limited20123229780241952238
HardcoverAllen Lane2011—9781846144219
EditionPicador20113369780312569365
EditionPenguin Books, Limited2011—9781846144226
EditionFarrar, Straus and Giroux20103179780374273187
EditionBlackstone Audio2010—9781441753632
EditionFarrar, Straus & Giroux2010—9781429979665
IslamRelationsChristianity and other religionsChristianityKristendom och islamInterfaith relationsNew York Times bestsellerChristianity and other religions, islam