The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Author	Christopher Hitchens
Language	English
Subject	Mother Teresa
Publisher	Verso
Publication date	1995
Publication place	United Kingdom
Pages	128 pages
ISBN	1-85984-054-X
OCLC	33358318
Dewey Decimal	271/.97 B 20
LC Class	BX4406.5.Z8 H55 1995

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice is a book by the journalist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens published in 1995. It is a critique of the work and philosophy of Mother Teresa, the founder of an international Roman Catholic religious congregation, and it challenges the mainstream media's assessment of her charitable efforts. 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."^[1]

Only 128 pages in length,^[1] it was re-issued in paperback and ebook form with a foreword by Thomas Mallon in 2012.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Maddox, Bruno (14 January 1996). "Books in Brief: Nonfiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
^ Bosman, Julie (5 March 2012). "Three Hitchens Books Returning to Print". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

[maddox-1] Maddox, Bruno (14 January 1996). "Books in Brief: Nonfiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

[2] Bosman, Julie (5 March 2012). "Three Hitchens Books Returning to Print". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

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