Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is an essay by the British-American journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens (1949 – 2011) published in 1995. It criticizes the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997), the founder of a Roman Catholic religious congregation that provides charitable services worldwide, and the mainstream media's assessment of her charitable efforts. In length more a pamphlet than a book, it was re-issued in both paperback and ebook form with a foreword by Thomas Mallon in 2012.The book's thesis, as summarized by one critic, was that "Mother Teresa is less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs." The response to Hitchens' arguments fell largely upon ideological lines, with some critics contesting his evidence and others his understanding of the religious phenomenon Mother Teresa represented.. }
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- The_Missionary_Position abstract "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is an essay by the British-American journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens (1949 – 2011) published in 1995. It criticizes the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997), the founder of a Roman Catholic religious congregation that provides charitable services worldwide, and the mainstream media's assessment of her charitable efforts. In length more a pamphlet than a book, it was re-issued in both paperback and ebook form with a foreword by Thomas Mallon in 2012.The book's thesis, as summarized by one critic, was that "Mother Teresa is less interested in helping the poor than in using them as an indefatigable source of wretchedness on which to fuel the expansion of her fundamentalist Roman Catholic beliefs." The response to Hitchens' arguments fell largely upon ideological lines, with some critics contesting his evidence and others his understanding of the religious phenomenon Mother Teresa represented.".