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Christianity and Islam collide on the tenth parallel – the line of latitude 700 miles north of the equator. More than half of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims and 60% of the world’s two billion Christians live in Asia and Africa in the region of the tenth parallel. In countries such as Nigeria, Sudan, Somalia, Malaysia and the Philippines, faith is reawakening and encounters between Christianity and Islam are shaping the future.
Eliza Griswold, an award-winning investigative journalist and poet, spent seven years travelling in the area between the tenth parallel and the equator. In each country she visits, she asks whether it is possible to determine where faith ended and secular violence began, and she wonders what role religion has played in struggles over resources and power.
In conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, she explores the relationship between faith and secular power, and the conflicts over religion, nationhood and resources that will define the future of our world. The Tenth Parallel is her first book and it was a New York Times bestseller. Griswold writes for a number of US journals and newspapers including The New York Times and Harper’s Magazine.