The Missionary Position : Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (CD-Audio)

from Devil_llama

A discussion of the popular nun's fundraising and caregiving. Hitchens pulls no punches in his description of the nun as someone who doesn't deserve the slavish devotion showered on her by the American public. A bit disappointing in that it could have been more thorough.

from JonArnold

One of the more famous of Hitchens' contrarian stances, this is a systematic repudiation of the saintly reputation Mother Teresa had built up. He examines the problems built up by the rush to acclaim her and then the uncritical adoration of her life and work. It dismantles supernatural claims (su...

from mimal

bookshelves: essays, fraudio, published-1995, spring-2014, roman-catholic, nonfiction, christian, history, religion, tbr-busting-2014, politics, philosophy, india, calcutta, lifestyles-deathstyles Read from March 04 to 05, 2014 Written by: Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Mallon (foreword) Narrated b...

from mybucketlistofbooks

An unfortunately titled book that is nevertheless a very well argued if strident argument against the notion that Mother Teresa was the selfless advocate for the poor that her reputation would suggest.Hitchens argues that her work with the poor was less an attempt to alleviate their suffering tha...

from petterw

Thank god for Christopher Hitchens, a true rebel, unpredictable, impossible to pin, but always to the point. This little book made me blame myself for being too gullible and uncritical - I have accepted unequivocally that Mother Teresa was an altruistic angel, only interested in helping the poor....