The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice из жанра Биографии и мемуары

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

Биографии и мемуары, Публицистика

Автор: Хитченс Кристофер

Язык: английский

Год: 1997

Издатель: Verso

ISBN: 9781859840542

Город: London

Добавил: Admin 18 Дек 12

Проверил: Admin 18 Дек 12

Формат: FB2 (223 Kb) RTF (242 Kb) TXT (213 Kb) HTML (216 Kb) EPUB (345 Kb) MOBI (822 Kb)

Currently 0/5

Рейтинг: 0/5 (Всего голосов: 0)

Аннотация

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.