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Oxford University Press American Saint Francis Asbury And The Methodists
Book SynopsisIn American Saint, John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Francis Asbury and, by extension, a revealing interpretation of the early years of the Methodist movement in America.Trade Review[a] masterful, nuanced portrait * Charles Wallace, Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Chapter 1. The Apprentice ; Chapter 2. The Young Preacher ; Chapter 3. The Promise of Discipline ; Chapter 4. Southern Persuasion ; Chapter 5. One Revolution ; Chapter 6. Leads to Another ; Chapter 7. Looking Forward, Looking Backward ; Chapter 8. A New Church in a New Nation ; Chapter 9. "Such a time...was never seen before" ; Chaper 10. "Alas for the rich! they are so soon offended" ; Chapter 11. "Be not righteous over much" ; Chapter 12. Schism ; Chapter 13. Reconnecting ; Chapter 14. "Weighed in the balances" ; Chapter 15. "We were great too soon" ; Chapter 16. "Down from a Joyless height" ; Chapter 17. "Feel for the power" ; Chapter 18. "The garden of God" ; Chapter 19. "Like a moving fire" ; Chapter 20. Limits ; Chapter 21. "I see, I feel what is wrong in preachers and people, but I cannot make it right," ; Chapter 22. What God Allows ; Chapter 23. End of the Road ; Epilogue: Bending Frank ; Abbreviations ; Notes ; Index
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Tellwell Talent Loving Jesus
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Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd Thomas Merton Master of Attention
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University of Notre Dame Press Isabelle of France
Book SynopsisAs the only daughter of Blanche of Castile, one of France''s most powerful queens, and as the sister of the Capetian saint Louis IX, Isabelle of France (1225-1270) was situated at the nexus of sanctity and power during a significant era of French culture and medieval history. In this ground-breaking examination of Isabelle''s career, Sean Field uses a wealth of previously unstudied material to address significant issues in medieval religious history, including the possibilities for women''s religious authority, the creation and impact of royal sanctity, and the relationship between men and women within the mendicant orders. Field reinterprets Isabelle''s career as a Capetian princess. Isabelle was remarkable for choosing a life of holy virginity and for founding and co-authoring a rule for the Franciscan abbey of Longchamp. Isabelle did not become a nun there, but remained a powerful lay patron, living in a modest residence on the abbey grounds. Field maintains that Isabelle Trade Review“The result is an exploration of the development of Franciscan ideology and identity in the middle thirteenth century and a nuanced perspective on the culture and religiosity of the Capetian court. The audience for this book will range from those interested in medieval women, to those who work on saints and sanctity, the Capetians, or Franciscan institutional history and spirituality.” —The Catholic Historical Review“Sean Field tells the story of family, solidarity, female agency, and monarchical spirituality through the life of Isabelle of France (1225-1270). . . . Complementing a hagiographical biography of the princess with new archival discoveries and close readings of the documents, Field's contribution particularly expands our understanding of the Franciscan order in the thirteenth century and its relations with models of lay piety.” —H-Catholic, H-Net Reviews“This is a solidly researched investigation that focuses on one person but illuminates her far-reaching impact of the French royalty, the Franciscan Order, the papacy, and the populace far into the twentieth century.” —The Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature“This exemplary biography, to a large degree based upon previously unknown or ignored primary sources, offers a close reading of the texts against the broader context. . . . [This book] combines an admirable attention to detail with an excellent analysis of the political and religious context.” —Journal of Ecclesiastical History“The legacy of psycho-history for the interpretation of medieval sources has been long and problematic, and it is good to see here a biography based so firmly in textual criticism, where the reader is made acutely aware on almost every page of how far the evidence can take us securely. The result is a lively picture of Isabelle drawn from her actions, and not from psychological speculation. . . Isabelle of France has been grounded in modern scholarship in a way which will probably price definitive for some time to come.” —English Historical Review“Nearly everything of importance to historians about the thirteenth century is here, refracted in the prism of a single individual's life. . . . As recounted here, Isabelle’s life also illustrates the distinctive elements of women’s piety, with special attention to books and images; the way men saw holy women differently than holy women saw themselves; the conscious campaigning required to create a saint’s cult; the Capetians’ cooperation in taking care of family business; and the dynasty’s strong, royally distinctive piety, with its mendicant flavoring and emphasis on penance. . . Finally, Field’s discussion of the piety of both Blanche of Castille and Isabelle herself is very insightful, both in his recognition of the paradoxes both women embodied and in his deft characterization of Isabelle's piety as 'a studied simplicity'.” —The Historian“A wide range of scholars will benefit from this book, certainly including Capetian specialists and Franciscan scholars, but it will also be of considerable interest to those with an interest in the question of women’s agency. . . . Isabelle of France would make a useful assignment for undergraduate classes on women and power or religion.” —Medieval Feminist Forum“. . . provides a stimulating overview of Isabelle of France’s achievements. Field’s study thoroughly exploits the available historical evidence. When necessary, he speculates beyond his sources, to create a meaningful psychological profile of the historical actors. I think he has done the world of Franciscan scholarship a great service.” —Religious Studies Review"In this book Sean Field has done a remarkable job in reconstructing the life of Isabelle, the sister of France's saintly king, Louis IX. He has also explored in considerable depth and with great insight the process of making a saint in later medieval France. This is a first-rate study, one written with admirable economy and a judicious sensitivity to the complexities of the sources." —William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University"Beautifully written, based on meticulous and probing analysis of the sources, Sean Field's admirable study of Isabelle of France, the holy sister of France's saint-king Louis IX, illuminates not only the woman herself but also the fascinating and complex world in which she lived." —Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Professor Emerita of History, The City University of New York
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Anointment of Dionisio
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Pennsylvania State University Press Religion Around Billie Holiday
Book SynopsisExplores the multiple religious influences on Billie Holiday’s life and sound, combining elements of biography with the history of race and American music.Trade Review“A focused, enlightening examination of the gifted singer.”—Nick Ripatrazone The Millions“This beautiful, brilliantly charted exploration of religion around Billie Holiday is overflowing with insights into the woman, the music, the milieu, and religious aspects of personal and collective struggle. Informed, critically discerning, and in gorgeous prose, this is exemplary humanities scholarship, a rare and exciting achievement.”—John Corrigan,author of Emptiness: Feeling Christian in America“Fessenden’s work has significant value, particularly for the scholar invested in lived religion or the history of religion, jazz, and American popular culture.”—Adam Sweatman Reading Religion“It’s refreshing to read a nonfiction text so freewheeling, and to encounter a scholar who so delights in making observations for the sheer wit of them. Fessenden is interested in Holiday’s contemporaries and the coincidences of her career, and these aren’t artificially forced into an argument.”—Katherine Lucky Commonweal“From first to last, the prose is consistently compelling, the insights sharp and often surprising. One comes away from this book knowing more about lots of things and admiring the seamless interweaving. It will be impossible to hear Holiday’s music the same way.”—David W. Stowe Journal of the American Academy of Religion“With beautiful prose and nuanced analysis, Fessenden navigates the reader through the religious landscape that shaped Holiday’s life and career and tunes our ear to listen for how the soundscape and spirituality of those religious sources shaped her artistry. What emerges is a rich and compelling portrait at the intersection of Holiday’s personal history, American Catholicism, blues and jazz culture, and the currents of race and gender in American life.”—Judith Weisenfeld,author of New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration“Illuminating, graceful, insightful, and bold, Tracy Fessenden’s marvelous interpretation of Billie Holiday is no mere biography. Religion Around Billie Holiday is an extension of, and improvisation on, the big questions shaping Fessenden’s work. Holiday is not only, in Fessenden’s imagination, an exemplary narrative subject. She also challenged the naturalization of American racial, gendered, and religious norms. Through her, Fessenden brilliantly shows us the fault lines in identity that were there all along, like more strange fruit.”—Jason C. Bivins,author of Spirits Rejoice! Jazz and American Religion“A hungry, centrifugal curiosity animates Fessenden’s writing. At times, her sense of ‘religion around’ seems capacious enough to include nothing less than America itself. . . . The reward is richness of scope: every page brings a new tumble down another rabbit hole of twentieth-century American cultural history.”—Brett Grainger American Catholic Studies“Joining Matthew J. Cressler’s important study of Vatican II and Black Power in mid-century Chicago with Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration (New York University Press, 2017) is Fessenden’s towering close reading of an African American vocalist whose Catholic-informed life, and others’ memory of it, reflect her discursive and performative treatment as the patron saint of jazz.”—Vaughn A. Booker Material Religion“Religion Around Billie Holiday is Fessenden's own performance of what listening around a life allows one to hear of religion and of America more broadly. She does it in a beautiful way.”—Hannah C. Garvey American ReligionTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Religion Around2. True Confessions3 The Story of Jazz4. Crossing Jordan5. Our LadyNotesBibliographyIndex
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The Crown Publishing Group Mother Teresa Come Be My Light
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Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) To Heaven and Back A Doctors Extraordinary
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One million copies sold! Dr. Mary Neal (featured in the Netflix original series Surviving Death) tells the incredible story of the kayak accident during a South American adventure that took her to heaven—where she experienced God’s peace, joy, and angels—and back to life again. In 1999 in the Los Rios region of southern Chile, orthopedic surgeon, devoted wife, and loving mother Dr. Mary Neal drowned in a kayak accident. While cascading down a waterfall, her kayak became pinned at the bottom and she was immediately and completely submerged. Despite the rescue efforts of her companions, Mary was underwater for too long, and as a result, died. To Heaven and Back is Mary’s remarkable story of her life’s spiritual journey and what happened as she moved from life to death to eternal life, and back again. Detailing her feelings
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Zondervan A CourseGuide for Seeking Allah Finding Jesus
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Zondervan A Longing to Belong
Book SynopsisThrough Lee-Barnewall’s insights as both a New Testament scholar and an Asian American who has experienced what it means to be racially marginalized, her memoir, A Longing to Belong spurs readers to consider what it means to live as racially distinctive people in a fallen world that abounds in pain and is in desperate need of the gospel of grace.
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HarperChristian Resources God the Deliverer Bible Study Guide Plus
Book SynopsisGod goes to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people. In this 8-session video Bible study (streaming included), enter the unfolding progression of the Old Testament and the advancement of God''s complex plan to deliver his people. Deliverance is what the story of the Bible is all about. But throughout the Bible, there are two parallel dramas unfolding: The lower story, which describes the events from our human perspective. The upper story, which reveals how the events unfold from God''s perspective. The goal of the God the Deliverer Bible study is to introduce you to these lower and upper stories as told in the Old Testament books of 1 Samuel through Malachi and the thread of deliverance that weaves through them both.As you read these narratives—featuring characters such as Samuel, Saul, David, Jeremiah, Daniel, Esther, Ezra, and Nehemiah—you will see how God
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HarperChristian Resources The God Who Sees Bible Study Guide plus Streaming
Book SynopsisHow knowing that God always sees us—in every situation—delivers us from despair and allows us to keep going.In this six-session video Bible study (streaming access included), Kathie Lee Gifford and Joanne Moody will take you back to the Holy Land where God made his covenant with people like Hagar, Ruth, Boaz, David, and Mary of Magdala. You''ll study their stories and how God saw their plight, called them, and watched over them. You''ll see how they wrestled with the same questions we do today: Does God see what''s happening to me? Does he care?This Bible study (part 3 of The God of the Way Study Series) will help you see God as El Roi, meaning The God who sees. You''ll learn what that means, how it shapes your faith, and how it impacts your daily life in exciting new ways.Each session includes clips from The God of the Way that brings the story of Scripture to life with contempora
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Zondervan Even in Our Darkness
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Zondervan Publishing Company The Memoirs of Charles G. Finney
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Zondervan The Sacred Acre
Book SynopsisWhen tragedy devastated a small town, an unlikely source of inspiration pieced the community back together in this dramatic true story. On a Sunday in May 2008, an F5 tornado hit the town of Parkersburg, Iowa, killing eight people and destroying 250 homes and businesses within a span of 34 seconds. The next day, Parkersburg''s beloved football coach, Ed Thomas, made a stunning prediction: God willing, we will play our first home game here on this field this season.One hundred days later, the home team scored a victory on the field they dubbed the Sacred Acre, serving as a galvanizing point for the town to band together and rebuild. But just as Parkersburg was recovering, another disaster struck.While working with a group of football and volleyball players early one morning, one of Thomas''s former students walked in and gunned him down at point-blank range. Thomas was only 58 years old. The murder of this hometown hero spread across national new
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Zondervan Finding Quiet
Book SynopsisInformative and honest, Finding Quiet validates the experiences of believers struggling with mental illness, provides spiritual and psychological tools for defeating anxiety and depression—and will reassure you that you can thrive again.In May 2003, prominent philosopher, author, and professor J. P. Moreland awoke in the middle of the night to a severe panic attack. Though often anxious by temperament and upbringing, Moreland had never experienced such an incident before. Thus began an extended battle with debilitating anxiety and depression.More than a decade later, Moreland continues to manage his mental illness. Yet along the way he''s moved from shame and despair to vulnerability and hope. In Finding Quiet, Moreland comes alongside fellow sufferers with encouragement and practical, hard-won advice—a distillation of the very best and most helpful things he discovered about dealing with anxiety and depression from his peTrade ReviewA deeply moving, honest, and helpful resource . . . an excellent complement to the process of Christian counseling and psychotherapy. * Gary W. Moon, author of Becoming Dallas Willard *A masterpiece of scholarship, transparency, compassion, and profound guidance for all who struggle with anxiety or depression. * Lee Strobel, New York Times bestselling author *A remarkable book of wisdom and practical steps that make it an invaluable resource. * Sean McDowell, professor, speaker, author *Finding Quiet doesn’t minimize depression or offer superficial solutions. Its well-researched ideas combine depth and practicality. * Jan Johnson, author of When the Soul Listens *Finding Quiet will give readers genuine hope for dealing with their own anxiety and depression or helping others who face these challenges. * Wayne Grudem, professor, Phoenix Seminary *Provides us with wise and deeply personal insights into anxiety and depression. I highly recommend Finding Quiet. * Richard J. Foster, author of Celebration of Discipline *Table of ContentsChapter 1: My Decent into an Abyss of Anxiety/Depression Chapter 2: Human Persons and a Holistic Approach for Defeating Anxiety/Depression Chapter 3: Getting a Handle on Anxiety Chapter 4: Spiritual and Psychological Tools for Defeating Anxiety/Depression, Part 1 Chapter 5: Spiritual and Psychological Tools for Defeating Anxiety/Depression, Part 2 Chapter 6: Brain and Heart Tools for Defeating Anxiety/Depression Chapter 7: Suffering, Healing and Disappointment with God Chapter 8: Putting It All Together Appendices Appendix 1: Encouraging Verses Appendix 2: Soothing, Encouraging, Uplifting Quotes from Dallas Willard Appendix 3: A List of Chapter Summary Bullet-Points Appendix 4: Annotated Bibliography of Tools for Anxiety, Depression, and Spiritual/Psychological Health
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Lulu.com C H Spurgeons Autobiography The Early Years 18341859 The Life of the Great Baptist Preacher Compiled from his diary letters records and sermons
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Lulu.com C H Spurgeons Autobiography The Early Years 18341859 The Life of the Great Baptist Preacher Compiled from his diary letters records and sermons Hardcover
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Lulu.com John Huss The Life Teachings and Death of a Theologian Pivotal in the Bohemian Reformation Jan Hus
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Lulu.com The Autobiography of Parley P Pratt Leader of the Utah Latter Day Saints His History of the Early Mormon Church Hardcover
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Lulu.com The Autobiography of Parley P Pratt Leader of the Utah Latter Day Saints His History of the Early Mormon Church
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Lulu.com Letters of Samuel Rutherford Complete and Unabridged with biographical sketches of his correspondents and of his own life Hardcover
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Lulu.com Letters of Samuel Rutherford Complete and Unabridged with biographical sketches of his correspondents and of his own life
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Lulu.com Autobiography of Peter Cartwright The Backwoods Preacher An American Methodist and Christian Revivalist of the Midwest
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Lulu.com Autobiography of Peter Cartwright The Backwoods Preacher An American Methodist and Christian Revivalist of the Midwest Hardcover
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Lulu.com The Biography of Robert Murray MCheyne The Great Preacher Pastor and Missionary of the Church of Scotland Hardcover
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Lulu.com The Biography of Robert Murray MCheyne The Great Preacher Pastor and Missionary of the Church of Scotland
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Lulu.com The Training of the Twelve How Jesus Christ Found and Taught the 12 Apostles A Book of New Testament Biography Hardcover
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Lulu.com The Training of the Twelve How Jesus Christ Found and Taught the 12 Apostles A Book of New Testament Biography
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Lulu.com The Visions and Prophecies of Zechariah A
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Lulu.com The Visions and Prophecies of Zechariah A Commentary and Bible Study of the Prophet of Hope and Glory
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Lulu.com Mitt Liv som Kristen
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ReadHowYouWant Out of the Comfort Zone
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Farrar Straus Giroux Maimonides
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group St Thomas More Selected Writings Vintage Spiritual Classics
Book SynopsisDrawing on a variety of More’s late writings, this collection provides even readers lacking a background in Renaissance humanism or history with a rich introduction to a startlingly modern man of spiritual principle. Thomas More is perhaps most familiar to us from his courageous struggle with Henry VIII, unforgettably portrayed in Robert Bolt’s classic, A Man for All Seasons. But that final struggle, which ended in his execution for treason, was only the crowning act in a life that he had devoted to God long before. In the first selection in decades made for the general reader from his collected works, this volume traces More’s journey of moral conviction in his own words and writings. Also included is the famous “Life of Sir Thomas More,” written by his son-in-law, William Roper. In the annals of spirituality certain books stand out both for their historical importance and for their continu
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The Crown Publishing Group Walking with Mary A Biblical Journey from
Book SynopsisMary appears only a few times in the Bible, but those few passages come at crucial moments. Catholics believe that Mary is the ever-virgin Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven and Earth. But she also was a human being--a woman who made a journey of faith through various trials and uncertainties and endured her share of suffering. Even with her unique graces and vocation, Mary remains a woman we can relate to and from whom we have much to learn. In Walking with Mary, Edward Sri looks at the crucial passages in the Bible concerning Mary and offers insight about the Blessed Mother's faith and devotion that we can apply in our daily lives. We follow her step-by-step through the New Testament account of her life, reflecting on what the Scriptures tell us about how she responded to the dramatic events unfolding around her. “This book is the fruit of my personal journey of studying Mary through the Scriptures, from her initial calling in Nazareth to her pa
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Random House Publishing Group Night of the Confessor
Book SynopsisTomáš Halík is a wise guide for the post-Christian era, and never more so than in his latest work, a thought-provoking and powerful reflection on the relationship between faith, paradox, change, and resurrection. As the challenges of cultural secularization and dwindling congregation size confront religious communities across North America and Europe, and the Catholic Church in particular, Tomáš Halík is a prophetic voice of hope. He has lived through the political oppression and intolerance of religion that defined Communist Czechoslovakia, and he draws from this experience to remind readers that not only does crisis lead to deeper understanding but also that any living religion is a changing religion. The central messages of Christianity have always seemed impossible, from peace and forgiveness in the face of a harsh world to love and self-sacrifice despite human selfishness to the victory of resurrection through the defeat of the cross.
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W. W. Norton & Company Judas A Biography
Book Synopsis"Judas is a dark journey through the murderousness of Christian Anti-Semitism, culminating in the mass slaughter of more than a and their associated European butchers. Lucid, study is close to definitive on the fictive figure of Judas."—Harold BloomTrade Review"If Judas had not existed, God would have had to invent him. The divine script called for betrayal with a kiss, and someone had to be cast in that role. Judas, the intimate friend of the Son, became thus the indispensable collaborator of the Father and a figure of endlessly inviting ambivalence for the Western imagination. Susan Gubar has assembled a tour-de-force collection of Judas-art and Judas-literature and turned it into a Judas biography full of thought, heart, and fascination." -- Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography"A most readable account of the story of the New Testament’s arch-villain and his history over the past 2000 years, Susan Gubar’s Judas links Christian anti-Semitism with Christianity’s attempt to grapple with transcendent evil. The recent discovery of the ancient Gospel of Judas makes Gubar’s book a MUST READ." -- Sander Gilma
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mother Teresa Saint or Celebrity
Book SynopsisMother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times. Apart from Pope John Paul II, she was arguably the most advertised religious celebrity in the last quarter of the twentieth century. During her lifetime as well as posthumously, Mother Teresa continues to generate a huge level of interest and heated debate.Gëzim Alpion explores the significance of Mother Teresa to the mass media, to celebrity culture, to the Church and to various political groups. A section explores the ways different vested interests have sought to appropriate her after her death, and also examines Mother Teresa''s own attitude to her childhood and to the Balkan conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s.This book sheds a new and fascinating light upon this remarkable and influential woman, which will intrigue followers of Mother Teresa and those who study the vagaries of stardom and celebrity culture.Trade Review'It is a clever book, providing a great deal of original and new thought on the subject.' - Primrose Peacock, Friends of Albania 'In his unparalleled scholarly book, Alpion has presented a multidimensional portrait of Mother Teresa. And she appears human as she rarely did in any discourse about her.' - Gaston Roberge, The New Leader'In its depth, breadth, and seriousness, this volume may stand for some time to come as the single most imporant biography of Mother Teresa in English ... A great value of this book is that [Alpion] has provided us with the fullest portrait yet of her native culture and her maturation' – Center for Islamic Pluralism'This book of Alpion's feels like a whiff of delightfully fresh air. It is the work of an open and dedicated scholar, who despite his reverence for the nun has yet striven to be as unbiased as possible, never letting his emotions get in the way. I would have no hesitation at all in recommending this book to everyone.' – Bulletin of the Faculty of Foreign Studies'I enjoyed this book and anyone interested in how Albanian identity is understood and constructed should take the time to read it carefully.' -- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies‘Alpion’s examination of Mother Teresa’s celebrity is a case study of corporate identity management in today’s global media environment. His weaving of primary texts into the setting of this character piece creates a comprehensive cross-cultural examination that has the potential to become a new archetypal work of this mercurial personality.’ -- Marvin Williams, American Communication Journal, USA‘In its depth, breadth, and seriousness, this volume may stand for some time to come as the single most important biography of Mother Teresa in English.’ -- Stephen Schwartz, Illyria, New York, USA‘After Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? scholarship about Mother Teresa will not be the same.… In his unparalleled scholarly book, Alpion has presented a multidimensional portrait of Mother Teresa. And she appears human as she rarely did in any discourse about her.’ -- Professor Gaston Roberge, The New Leader, India‘One must ungrudgingly give it to Alpion that this has been a work of monumental proportions involving great dexterity….All methodological exclusivity has been abjured, allowing the multihued disciplines to coalesce as needed in the research….All this makes the book compulsory reading.’ -- Professor Bonita Aleaz, Head of Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta, The Asia Journal of Theology, India‘[A] superbly researched work…. After Germaine Greer, Christopher Hitchens and Susan Shields this book of Alpion’s feels like a whiff of delightfully fresh air…. I would have no hesitation at all in recommending this book to everyone.’ -- Professor Cyril Veliath, Bulletin of the Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan‘Alpion is to be congratulated on both the depth of his research spread over several years, and the balanced way he sets out his facts….It is a clever book, providing a great deal of original and new thought on the subject but it is not a book to skim through in a couple of hours.’ -- Primrose Peacock, Catholic South West, UK‘Alpion’s book....is unique in locating the appeal of Mother Teresa within today’s broader celebrity culture…. For Alpion, celebrity culture is a modern form of religion and Mother Teresa was the ultimate religious celebrity of the modern era.’ --Dr Stuart Derbyshire, Spiked Magazine, UK‘Alpion [who] writes illuminatingly about different forms of "celebrity discourse"…has written an absorbing analysis what this nun has meant to the world.’ -- John Hodgson, Light Magazine, UK‘This engaging book raises as many questions as it answers…. Alpion unpacks the full historical background in meticulous detail... The result is intriguing, if a little unsatisfactory. His thesis is original: Mother Teresa knew well what she was about… Her success and subsequent "fame" were of her own making, and she was far brighter than she made out… So there was sacrifice involved in her quest for fame, but was her integrity one of the casualties? That is what this book tries to explore — hence its telling subtitle.’ -- Dr Lavinia Byrne, Church Times, UK‘Alpion has not simply added another book to the already vast literature on Mother Teresa; he has actually enriched it. …Alpion has made an outstanding contribution to contemporary popular culture.’ --Dr Michael Schmidt-Neke, Albanische Hefte, Bochum, Germany‘I can’t but conclude that after all of his careful research and reasoned probing, Alpion was personally touched by this great woman…. Alpion does ask some controversial questions. However, his answers are fair and reasoned from his point of view.’ -- Dr Margaret Nutting Ralph, Albanian Journal of Politics, Chapel Hill, NC, USA‘[T]he book does offer the migrationist a very useful account of an exceptional migration trajectory and, although this is not a declared objective of the book, it is also worth reading for its migratory sub-text. Mother Teresa as a migrant woman in the early part of the twentieth century makes for fascinating speculation regarding her motives and the modality of her mobility. I enjoyed this book and anyone interested in how Albanian identity is understood and constructed should take the time to read it carefully.’ -- Professor Glyn Davies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, UK‘The most authoritative English-language author on Blessed Teresa of Kolkata is Gëzim Alpion…a pioneer in the academic study of the phenomenon of celebrity.’ -- Stephen Schwartz, Folks Magazine, India‘In addition to [Aroup] Chatterjee’s books Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict and Mother Teresa: The Untold Story, and Christopher Hitchens’ The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, there is one by Gëzim Alpion, titled Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity? which was as critical of Teresa as the other works mentioned earlier. Published in 2006, it exposed the well-orchestrated publicity blitz that Mother Teresa encouraged about herself, even when her real charity work didn’t count for much.’Dr T. Hanuman Chowdary, Swarajya, India'The main thrust of this carefully argued work is two fold. Firstly it concentrates on the loss of her father when a child becoming the mainspring driving the rest of Mother Teresa's life with 'Jesus' as a parental and marital substitute. Secondly it shows with considerable clarity how Mother Teresa used and was used by politicians, governments, the church, her admirers and a few detractors to achieve her objectives in what I consider was the result of her Albanian psyche. It is a clever book, providing a great deal of original and new thought on the subject but it is not a book to skim through in a couple of hours.' - Primrose Peacock, Friends of Albania '...this book of Alpion's feels like a whiff of delightfully fresh air. It is the work of an open and dedicated scholar, who despite his reverence for the nun has yet striven to be as unbiased as possible, never letting his emotions get in the way. I would have no hesitation at all in recommending this book to everyone.' - Journal of the Faculty of Foreign Studies'In his unparalleled scholarly book, Alpion has presented a multidimensional portrait of Mother Teresa. And she appears human as she rarely did in any discourse about her.' - Gaston Roberge, The New Leader'This book is the work of an open and dedicated scholar, who, despite his reverence for the nun, has striven to be as unbiased as possible, never letting his emotions get in the way. I would have no hesitation at all in recommending this book to everyone.' - Cyril Veliath, The New Leader'In its depth, breadth, and seriousness, this volume may stand for some time to come as the single most imporant biography of Mother Teresa in English ... A great value of this book is that [Alpion] has provided us with the fullest portrait yet of her native culture and her maturation' – Center for Islamic Pluralism'This book of Alpion's feels like a whiff of delightfully fresh air. It is the work of an open and dedicated scholar, who despite his reverence for the nun has yet striven to be as unbiased as possible, never letting his emotions get in the way. 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