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    The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

     
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    The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

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    New foreword by Thomas Mallon

    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 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.

    "A dirty job but someone had to do it. By the end of this elegantly written, brilliantly argued piece of polemic, it is not looking good for Mother Teresa." -Sunday Times (London)


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    EAN/ISBN:
    9781455523009
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    128
    Publication date:
    2012-04-10
    Publisher:
    Twelve
    Languages:
    english
    EAN/ISBN:
    9781455523009
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    128
    Publication date:
    2012-04-10
    Publisher:
    Twelve
    Languages:
    english

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