DR TRISH MADIGAN op - RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
Research Projects
Research Project: "Study of the Young Catholic Women's Interfaith Fellowship participants' post-course experience" commissioned by the Council of Australian Catholic Women. Completed March 2012.
Research Project: “Three Generations of Women in Northern Iraq: How Gϋlen-Inspired Institutions are empowering young women to contribute to a more stable and peaceful future,” with Dr. Martha Ann Kirk, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas USA. Sponsored by the Gϋlen Institute and Fezalar Educational Institutions. June 2011 (publication pending)
Supplementary Paper: “Freedom of Religion, Belief and Gender in the 21st Century – a Catholic Perspective,” Australian Human Rights Commission Report on Freedom of Religion and Belief in the 21st Century, March 2011 http://www.humanrights.gov.au/frb/index.html
Report on the Australian Women’s Coalition Intercultural Bridge-building Project: a study of the social and political impact of women’s intercultural dialogue. Completed March 2010 http://www.awcaus.org.au/Projects.aspx
Research Project, “Australian Family Law and You,” Macquarie University Law School. Completed March 2009.
Conference Papers
Paper: “Ethics in a Multifaith Society: Christians and Muslims in Dialogue” at Assisi2012 Conference organized by The Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network, Assisi, Italy, April 2012.
Presentation: “The Role of Education in Promoting Peace and Security: Training and Capacity Building for Future Interfaith Leaders” at 6th Regional Interfaith Dialogue, sponsored by the Governments of Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines and New Zealand, Semarang, Indonesia - March 2012
Paper: “From Confrontation to Cooperation - Ethics in a Multifaith Society” at APCID Conference in honour of Fethullah Gülen, ACU Melbourne. November 2011.
Paper: “Reviving the Gender Agenda” presented at ISE-Concilium Conference: From World Mission to Interreligous Witness Visioning Ecumenics in the 21st Century, TCD Dublin. June 2010.
Workshop paper: "How Do Women Experience Salvation?: Catholic and Muslim Women Reflect on Religion and Culture in the Australian context" at Journées Romaines Dominicaines Conference: Universal Salvation: Challenged by Religious Identity, Rome, August 2009
Book
Women and Fundamentalism in Islam and Catholicism: negotiating modernity in a globalized world (Religions and Discourse series, Volume 53), Oxford: Peter Lang Publishers, 2011. Order here
Reviews: Peter Maher, Bridges, No 51, June 2011; Ed Campion, The Swag, Winter 2011; Agnes Wilkins, One in Christ, Vol 45, No 1, 2011; Therese Vassarotti, The Australasian Catholic Record, October 2011.
Refereed articles
Article: “ Reviving the Gender Agenda: A Human Development Approach”, One In Christ, vol 44, no 2, December 2010. http://www.oneinchrist.org.uk/5.html
Article: Women Negotiating Modernity: A Gender Perspective on Fundamentalisms in Catholicism and Islam, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Birmingham, vol 20, no 1, January 2009, 1-20.
Article: Women in Islam and Catholicism: Sydney Women Speak, Pacifica, June 2008, 210-223.
Article: The Threat of Fundamentalism? Some Christian and Muslim Perspectives, Compass Theological Review, vol 38, Winter, 2004, 14-18.
Book review: “Religions for Peace: A Call for Solidarity to the Religions of the World”, The Australasian Catholic Record, vol 81, no 1, January 2004, 124-125.
Book review: Buddhist Perceptions of Jesus, The Australasian Catholic Record, vol 80, no 4, October 2003, 522-523.
Book review: “At the Wellspring”, The Australasian Catholic Record, vol 80, no 1, January 2003, 125.
Article: A Tale of Mountain Climbing and an Elephant in the Living Room: The Third Phase of the Ecumenical Movement, Compass Theological Review, vol 35, Winter, 2001, 21-26.
Other articles and papers
Article: ‘Thanks to education, reconciliation and hope arise,” Aurora, December 2011. www.mn.catholic.org.au
Paper: “Partners in Dialogue” in Breaking Open the Lineamenta: A Consultation on the ‘New Evangelization’ for the 2012 Synod, 28 September 2011 http://www.columban.org.au/assets/files/cmi/Lineamenta%20Booklet.pdf
Article: “Thousands of men and no groping,” Eureka Street, 15 February 2011. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=25048
Article: Muslim and Catholic women reclaim a liberating vision, Commemoration Issue 21 of Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia magazine, Australian Mosaic, March 2009, 29-30.
Article: Women and Development: the interaction of culture and religious tradition in early Christianity and Islam,Bridges, no 42, March 2009.
Article: Learning from Islam, The Fountain, issue 60, Oct-Nov 2007, 20-22. First published in OnlineCatholics, 17th November 2004.
Article: What does Spirituality mean for us today? (Talk given at Women of Faith Dinner, 4 April 2004), ACMICA Enews, issue 4, 2004.
Contributed to Sustained Dialogue: Close Encounters of the Muslim-Christian Kind, Sydney: Affinity Intercultural Foundation, March 2004.
Article: Much in Common – Women and the Interfaith Journey: Where are the women in interfaith dialogue?Australian Mosaic, issue 2, Autumn 2003, 18-19.
Paper presented at "Gathering the Threads" Women Scholars in Religion and Theology (WSRT) Conference, Brisbane, January 1998: A Woman of Perfume and Prayer Speaks with Christ-Sophia: Wisdom as a basis for dialogue between Muslims and Christians.
Other
Talk given at NSW Ecumenical Council Fundraising Dinner, 25 May 2009.
