The Missionary Position

Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

Cover Art for 9781859840542, The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens
ISBN: 9781859840542
Publisher: Verso Trade
Published: 17 April, 1997
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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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