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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

By Christopher Hitchens

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
1995
ISBN
185984054X, 9781859840542
LCC
BX4406.5.Z8 H55 1995
Google Books ID
PTgJIjK67rEC
Open Library ID
OL808931M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2610092 bytes)
Pages
96\96
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine?In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish is to serve God. He asks whether Mother Teresa's good works answer any higher purpose than the need of the world's privileged to see someone, somewhere, doing something for the Third World. He unmasks pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's fitness to adjudicate on matters of sex and reproduction, and reports on a version of saintly ubiquity which affords genial relations with dictators, corrupt tycoons and convicted frauds.

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