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The Missionary Position

Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

By Christopher Hitchens

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| Paperback | 9781859840542

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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 anContinue

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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  • Closer to a prosecutor's opening statement than the actual case, the book has some interesting anecdotes (which I believe illustrate real problems), but the author clearly hates Mother Theresa and doesn't bother to rigorously prove his thesis. But it's an easy read that makes for a good starting po ... (continue)

    Closer to a prosecutor's opening statement than the actual case, the book has some interesting anecdotes (which I believe illustrate real problems), but the author clearly hates Mother Theresa and doesn't bother to rigorously prove his thesis. But it's an easy read that makes for a good starting point for further research.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 98 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 185984054X
  • ISBN-13: 9781859840542
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 1997
  • Dimensions: 21 cm x 13 cm x 1 cm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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