MOTHER TERESA: SAINT OR CELEBRITY?
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE
Published: 2007
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 284
Description: "Gezim Alpion explores the significance of Mother Teresa to the mass media, to celebrity culture, to the church and to various political and national groups. Drawing on new research into Mother Teresa's early years, he charts the rise to fame of this pioneering religious personality, investigating the celebrity discourse in which an exemplary nun was turned into a media and humanitarian icon."--Jacket.