ABSTRACT

Like Mother Teresa, Dr Gëzim Alpion is a teacher. As a teacher/writer he may have given a hint to readers, and more so to reviewers of his book 1 when he wrote:

To research Mother Teresa I had to employ tools I had not used before as a researcher, and more importantly to trespass into fields of knowledge that I have no formal education in. The writer, literary critic and journalist in me had to quarrel and make peace with the sociologist, theologian, historian, anthropologist, psychologist, cultural studies expert and the political and media analyst whenever they tried to establish their supremacy over each other. My challenge was to let them be and keep them on the team (p. 231).