Mother Teresa: saint or celebrity?
"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, inves...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2007
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| In: | Year: 2007 |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Teresa, Mother, Heilige 1910-1997
/ Star cult
/ Mass media
/ Biography
B Teresa, Mother, Heilige 1910-1997 |
| Further subjects: | B
Teresa 1910-1997
B Biography B Teresa Mother, Saint (1910-1997) |
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Publisher description Table of contents only Verlagsangaben (Publisher) |
| Parallel Edition: | Online-Ausg. u.d.T.: Mother Teresa: saint or celebrity? |
| Summary: | "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 |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverz. S. [263] - 272 Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XX, 284 S. |
| ISBN: | 0-415-39247-0 0-415-39246-2 978-0-415-39247-1 978-0-415-39246-4 |
