Title: MOTHER TERESA: SAINT OR CELEBRITY?
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.
Subjects: Teresa, mother, 1910-1997, RELIGION, Institutions & Organizations