Marie Tulip (12 March 1935 – 19 September 2015) was an Australian

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Early and family life

Born Marie Grant in Mackay,

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to parents Robert and Elspeth Grant, Tulip attended a Presbyterian church as a child. Tulip attended boarding school in Brisbane and later, having received a scholarship, attended the

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where she studied Arts and achieved an Honours degree in French. As an undergraduate, she participated in

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gatherings with, among others, James (Jim) Tulip (who became Associate Professor of English and Lecturer in Divinity at the

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). They married in Chicago in 1957. They had four children and, by the time of her death in 2015, five grandchildren.

Career

In Chicago, Tulip undertook a Master's degree at

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while also teaching at Roosevelt University. Upon her return to Australia, Tulip tutored in the French Department at the University of Sydney and, after a year, transferred to Macquarie University where she produced a series of publications, ''Outreach Texts,'' in relation to the University's newly-formed Teaching English as a Second Language course. She went on to teach courses in feminism and religion and published work in these fields. In 1968, Tulip was a founder of Christian Women Concerned, the first explicitly religious feminist organisation to emerge in Australia. The group published '' Magdalene'', of which Tulip was the editor. In 1973, Tulip was appointed co-ordinator of the Australian Council of Churches (now the

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) Commission on the Status of Women, an initiative of Jean Skuse. She was also a member of the National Women's Consultative Council, established in 1984. Tulip's book ''Knowing otherwise: feminism, women & religion'', was co-authored with Erin White and published in 1991. One reviewer, Margaret Heagney described the work as “a vital contribution to feminist scholarship in Australia”.

Works

* ''Hut Poems: 1978-1998'' Cerberus Press, Glebe (NSW), 1999 * ''Liberation theology and feminism'' (with Jean Skuse and Basil Moore), Australian Council of Churches, N.S.W. State Council, Commission on the Status of Women, 1975?Liberation theology and feminism

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* ''Knowing Otherwise - Feminism, Women and Religion'' (with Erin White), David Lovell Publishing, Melbourne, 1991 * ''Seven generations of a Queensland family : a memoir'' Glebe (NSW), 2004 * ''Women in a Man's Church: Changes in the Status of Women in the Uniting Church in Australia, 1977-1983'', Commission on the Status of Women of the Australian Council of Churches (NSW),

Articles

* Tulip, Marie. "Dimensions of Feminist Theology in Australia", '' Women-Church: Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion'', no. 1 (1987): 4-9
Digitised version of no. 1 (1987) available on JSTOR Open Community CollectionsUniversity of Divinity Digital Collections
  Mannix Library * Tulip, Marie. "Women's Spirituality", '' Women-Church: Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion'', no. 5 (1989): 23–28
Digitised version of no. 5 (1989) available on JSTOR Open Community CollectionsUniversity of Divinity Digital Collections
  Mannix Library * Tulip, Marie. "Feminism and the Bible", '' Women-Church: Australian Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion'', no. 8 (1991): 30–35
Digitised version of no. 8 (1991) available on JSTOR Open Community CollectionsUniversity of Divinity Digital Collections
  Mannix Library

References

External links

Magdalene on JSTOR Open Community CollectionsUniversity of Divinity Digital Collections
  Mannix Library.
The Ecumenical Movement Awakening Women
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tulip, Marie 1935 births 2015 deaths Australian feminist writers Australian Christian theologians Australian women writers Women religious writers Uniting Church in Australia people