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    Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

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    ISBN: 9780415392471
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    AuthorAlpion, Gezim
    Pub Date06/10/2006
    BindingPaperback
    Pages304
    Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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    Offering an account on Mother Teresa, this work throws light on this remarkable and influential woman, exploring her childhood, her role in Balkan politics and attitude to the Balkan conflicts of the 1980s and 1990s.

    Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times. Apart from Pope John Paul II, she was arguably the most advertised religious celebrity in the last quarter of the twentieth century. During her lifetime as well as posthumously, Mother Teresa continues to generate a huge level of interest and heated debate. Gezim Alpion explores the significance of Mother Teresa to the mass media, to celebrity culture, to the Church and to various political groups. A section explores the ways different vested interests have sought to appropriate her after her death, and also examines Mother Teresa's own attitude to her childhood and to the Balkan conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s. This book sheds a new and fascinating light upon this remarkable and influential woman, which will intrigue followers of Mother Teresa and those who study the vagaries of stardom and celebrity culture.