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Magdalene (newsletter)
''Magdalene: A Christian Newsletter for Women '' was an Australian Christian feminist magazine published by the Sydney group Christian Women Concerned. Fifteen volumes of the title were published over a 10-year period, Volume 1 (May 1973)-3/4 1987. The group Christian Women Concerned had been formed in 1968 and was the first explicitly religious feminist organisation in Australia. It was founded by a small ecumenical group of feminist scholars that included Marie Tulip, Dorothy McRae-McMahon and Jean Skuse. They sought to bring women together and make feminism more generally acceptable in an environment where the women's liberation movement was seen by some as a threat to families. Christian Women Concerned began publishing ''Magdalene'' in 1973 as a way to disseminate their views more widely. The magazine covered a broad range of topics in the fields of feminism and religion. Marie Tulip was one of the magazine's founding editors as well as being a regular contributor. Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Women Concerned
Christian Women Concerned was the first explicitly religious feminist organisation in Australia. It was founded in 1968 by a small ecumenical group of feminist scholars that included Marie Tulip, Dorothy McRae-McMahon and Jean Skuse. The organisation played a significant role in the establishment of the Commission on the Status of Women in the Church by the Australian Council of Churches and published the Christian feminist magazine ''Magdalene'' from 1973 to 1987. History Christian Women Concerned was formed in 1968. It was one of a number of Christian feminist groups established between the late 1960s and the early 1990s, that included Women and the Australian Church (1982) and the Movement for the Ordination of Women (Australia) (1983). It sought to bring women together and make feminism more generally acceptable in an environment where the women's liberation movement was seen by some as a threat to families. Christian Women Concerned started as a social justice group, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Tulip
Marie Tulip (12 March 1935 – 19 September 2015) was an Australian feminist writer, academic and proponent for the ordination of women as priests.Tulip, Marie; Occupation: Academic and Feminist theologian (), The Encyclopedia Of Women & Leadership In Twentieth-Century Australia, accessed 21 September 2015 Early and family life Born Marie Grant in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy McRae-McMahon
Dorothy McRae-McMahon (born 1934) is a retired Australian Uniting Church minister and activist, formerly Minister at Pitt Street Uniting Church—known for its human rights work and local "street level" activism. McRae-McMahon has been a feminist Christian trailblazer since the 1970s. Involved in women's liberation, human rights, anti-apartheid, anti-Vietnam War and in religious and spiritual matters. Coming out as a lesbian at the age of 50, McRae-McMahon created a major stir and homophobic attacks, engendering public discussion and acceptance of homosexual clergy. McRae-McMahon volunteers at a Uniting Church parish, co-edits the ''South Sydney Herald'', speaks at public forums and writes. Early life, marriage and children Dorothy McRae was born in 1934 in Zeehan, Tasmania, Australia where her Methodist Minister father had been appointed to his first parish. She married Barrie McMahon in 1956 and lived in Melbourne, Victoria. Originally a pre-school teacher, McRae-McMaho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Skuse
Jean Enid Skuse (born 1 January 1932) is an Australian Christian leader and ecumenist who served as the general secretary of the Australian Council of Churches and the Vice-Moderator of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC). Life Early life Jean Skuse was born in 1932, and grew up in New South Wales. She was raised in the Methodist faith, as her father was a Methodist minister. She began her professional life in accounting and auditing, working in this field from 1949 to 1963 in Sydney, Australia, and in London, England. Church work In 1963, Skuse became the administrator of a girl's hostel in Waverley, a suburb of Sydney, that was managed by the Methodist church. This marked the beginning of her long-career working for organizations connected to the Methodist Church, and later, the wider ecumenical movement. From 1969 to 1970, she worked as an observer to the United Nations, for the newly formed United Methodist Church in the United States, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Gledhill
Jean Gledhill is a member of the Uniting Church in Australia and a former member of the Commission on the Status of Women of the Australian Council of Churches. She was associated with two publications that contributed to the development of religious feminism in Australia. These were the Christian feminist magazine '' Magdalene'' and '' Women-Church: an Australian journal of feminist studies in religion''. Career Gledhill is a member of the Uniting Church in Australia and was a member of the Commission on the Status of Women of the Australian Council of Churches. She convened the commission's task group on Domestic Violence and the Church. During the late 1980s she was a part time faculty member at the United Theological College in New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women-Church Journal
''Women-Church: An Australian journal of feminist studies in religion'' was an Australian journal published by the Women-Church Collective. It was established in 1987 and ceased publication in 2007, with a total of 40 issues published over that time. The journal covered a broad range of topics in the fields of feminist theology, religion and spirituality. Scope Under the broader umbrella of feminism, religion and women's spirituality, the ''Women-Church'' journal included content from authors that held a diversity of understandings and perspectives. The journal documented major changes in feminist religious culture over a 20-year period. Its editorial policy encouraged contributions from more marginalized groups and it remained a non-refereed title as a way of making it accessible to a wide range of readers. Australian sociologist of religion and gender, Kathleen McPhillips has noted that the journal was "a place where young scholars could showcase their ideas, where women co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen McPhillips
Kathleen McPhillips is an Australian sociologist of religion and gender in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia and the current vice-president of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion. Education McPhillips completed a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) at Macquarie University and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Newcastle. Her doctoral thesis, titled Feminism, religion and modernity, was completed in 1995. Career McPhillips is an Australian sociologist of religion, gender and trauma. Her academic appointments have included roles at the Australian National University, the University of Western Sydney and the University of Newcastle. She is currently in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. McPhillips is also a researcher at the Centre for the History of Violence and leads the Interdisciplinary Trauma Research Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Australian Journal Of Feminist Studies In Religion
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Mannix Library
Mannix Library is an academic theological library located in East Melbourne, Victoria, East Melbourne, Australia. The library specialises in the areas of theology, philosophy, biblical studies and associated disciplines, and supports teaching and research at Catholic Theological College and the wider University of Divinity. The student body includes candidates for ordination, lay men and women, undergraduate, postgraduate and higher degree by research students, and members of the general public. The library uses OCLC's World Share Management System. History Mannix Library was founded in 1923 as part of Corpus Christi College, Melbourne, the provincial seminary for the Catholic dioceses of Victoria and Tasmania. Over time, the seminary and the library were located at Werribee, Glen Waverley and Clayton. When Catholic Theological College was established in 1972, library services were extended to staff and students of the college. When the library relocated from Clayton to its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Melbourne, Victoria
East Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. East Melbourne recorded a population of 4,896 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. East Melbourne is a small area of inner Melbourne, located between Richmond, Victoria, Richmond and the Central Business District. Broadly, it is bounded by Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street, Victoria Street, Melbourne, Victoria Parade, Hoddle Highway, Punt Road/Hoddle Street and Brunton Avenue. One of Melbourne's earliest suburbs, East Melbourne has long been home to many significant government, health and religious institutions, including the Parliament of Victoria and offices of the Victoria State Government in the Parliamentary and Cathedral precincts, which are located on a gentle hill at the edge of the Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Divinity
The University of Divinity is an Australian collegiate university of specialisation in divinity. It is constituted by eleven theological colleges from eight denominations. The University of Divinity is the direct successor of the second oldest degree-granting authority in the State of Victoria, the Melbourne College of Divinity. The university's chancery and administration are located in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne in the state of Victoria. The Melbourne College of Divinity was constituted in 1910 by an act of the Parliament of Victoria. The act was amended in 1956, 1972, 1979, 1990, 2005 and 2016 and is now known as the ''University of Divinity Act 1910'' (previously the ''Melbourne College of Divinity Act 1910''). From its beginnings the college was a self-accrediting issuer of degrees, while not becoming a university until 2011. Representatives appointed by several churches formed the college to provide tertiary level theological education. The first president was the Right Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JSTOR
JSTOR (; short for ''Journal Storage'') is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now encompasses books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals. , more than 8,000 institutions in more than 160 countries had access to JSTOR. Most access is by subscription but some of the site is public domain, and open access content is available free of charge. JSTOR's revenue was $86 million in 2015. History William G. Bowen, president of Princeton University from 1972 to 1988, founded JSTOR in 1994. JSTOR was originally conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence. Most libraries found it prohibitively expensive in terms of cost and space to maintain a comprehen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
