The Missionary Position Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

In this frank and damning expos� of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish was to serve God. He asks whether Mother Teresa's good works answered 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. Is Mother Teresa merely an essential salve to the conscience of the rich West, or an expert PR machine for the Catholic Church? In its caustic iconoclasm and unsparing wit, The Missionary Position showcases the devastating effect of Hitchens' writing at its polemical best.

ISBN:	9781838952242
Publisher:	Atlantic Books
Imprint:	Atlantic Books
Published date:	06 May 2021
DEWEY:	266.2092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	128
Weight:	100g
Height:	129mm
Width:	196mm
Spine width:	12mm

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