Patricia Madigan
Patricia (Trish) Madigan OP (born 1950) is an Australian religious sister, a member of The Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands and Executive Director of the Dominican Centre for Interfaith Ministry Education and Research (CIMER).[1]
Patricia Madigan | |
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Born | 1950 |
Nationality | Australian |
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Notable work | Representative at Australian National Dialogue of Christians, Muslims and Jews (ANDCMJ) |
Early life and education
Patricia Madigan was born in 1950.[2] She entered the religious life and became a religious sister as a member of The Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia and the Solomon Islands.[1]
Career
After beginning her career as a secondary school teacher and university chaplain, Madigan has worked predominantly in ecumenical and interfaith ministry in Sydney, Australia. She was a foundation member of the Women's Interfaith Network (WIN) in Sydney and a Christian representative on the Australian National Dialogue of Christians, Muslims and Jews (ANDCMJ),[3] Australia's peak inter-religious body and was the former Director of the Commission for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations in the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay (2003–2013) and the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney (1997–2003).[1][3]
Interfaith work
Between 2004 and 2012 Madigan was an Australian delegate at five regional inter-governmental conferences of the Asia-Pacific Regional Dialogue on Interfaith Cooperation for Peace and Harmony. In 2002 she participated in a Consultation of the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue for the Asian region held in Seoul, South Korea.[1][3]
She is a former member of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Advisory Committee for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations and the former Chair of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Council for Australian Catholic Women (CACW).[3] [4][5]
Writing and research
After the Arab Spring, Madigan published Women and Fundamentalism in Islam and Catholicism, one reviewer noted the timeliness of her work as much as its content.[6]
Publications
- "Be patient, ladies! Be patient!": Women and the Australian Church (WATAC), 1982-2021', The Australasian Catholic Record, 2021, 98(3), pp. 259–283. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.991609482579678
- 'Women Changing the Church: The Experience of the Council for Australian Catholic Women 2000–2019', in Mark D. Chapman & Vladimir Latinovic (eds.), Changing the Church : Transformations of Christian Belief, Practice, and Life. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-53425-7
- 'Women during and after Vatican II', in Vladimir Latinovic, Gerard Mannion & Jason Welle (eds.), Catholicism opening to the world and other confessions: Vatican II and its impact, Palgrave Macmillan, Switzerland, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-98581-7
- '"Nostra Aetate" and fifty years of interfaith dialogue – changes and challenges', Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, 2015, (36), pp. 179–191. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.876592262792089
- Women and Fundamentalism in Islam and Catholicism: Negotiating Modernity in a Globalized World. Peter Lang, Bern, 2011, pp. vii + 346. ISBN 978-3-0343-0276-0
- "Festival, Fetes and Flowers: Women Model New Vision in Harare", Women-Church: Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, no. 24 (1999): 37–41. Digitised version of no. 24 (1999) available on JSTOR Open Community Collections, University of Divinity Digital Collections, Mannix Library
References
- "Q & A with Sr. Trish Madigan". Global Sisters Report. 28 April 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- "160703563". viaf.org. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- "About us – CIMER". www.cimer.org.au. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- "Changes at the Bishops Conference". women.catholic.org.au. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- "About". women.catholic.org.au. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- Burke, Kevin (19 February 2012). "Review of Patricia Madigan, Women and Fundamentalism in Islam and Catholicism: Negotiating Modernity in a Globalized World, Bern: Peter Lang Publishing 2011, 338 pages, ISBN 978-3-0343-0276-0". Religion and Gender. 2 (2): 352–355. doi:10.1163/18785417-00202010. ISSN 2589-8051.