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Mother Teresa : the saint and her nation
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- Creator
- Gëzim Alpion
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Delhi : Bloomsbury, 2020
- ©2020
- Physical Details
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- xv, 284 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789389165050, 9389165059, 9789389165067, 9789389165043, 9389165040
- OCLC
- on1232085657
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-265), filmography (page 267) and index.
- Part One. Who Are Mother Teresa's Albanians?: 1. Victimisations of Albanians in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ; 2. The Albanian Nation, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey ; 3. Albanians' Illyrian Roots and Apostolic Christianity ; 4. The Calvary of Albanian Christianity ; 5. How Albanian Catholics Became a Pariah Community ; 6. An Onomastic Perspective on Catholic Albanians' Ethno-Spiritual Identity -- Part Two. History from Below: Mother Teresa's Albanian Roots and Skopje Years:- 7. Mother Teresa's Paternal Relations ; 8. Mother Teresa's Maternal Relations and the Taboo Blood Feud Story ; 9. Two Unusual Success Stories ; 10. The Affliction of Death ; 11. Gonxhe and Her Family Through the Eyes of a Forgotten Household Member -- Part Three. Mother Teresa's Relations with the Holy See and the Albanian Nation ; 12. The Holy See's Relations with the Albanian Nation During Mother Teresa's Lifetime ; 13. Mother Teresa's Religious Vocation as an Escape and a Quest ; 14. Was Mother Teresa Discriminated Against at Loreto for Being Albanian? ; 15. Skanderbeg and Mother Teresa: Two Unlikely Albanian Heroes