Marion Maddox

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Marion Maddox is an Australian author, academic and political commentator. She is Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University. Maddox is a regular commentator on issues of religion and politics in the Australian media. She is author of the book God Under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australian politics which compared the Howard Government with the religious right in the United States and criticised the decline of mainstream Christianity in Australia.

Maddox achieved doctorates in theology and political philosophy from Flinders University and the University of New South Wales respectively. She is also the recipient of an Australian Parliamentary Fellowship.[1]

Maddox has worked at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia,

She is married to Michael Symons, author of One Continuous Picnic (Duck Press, 1982), The Pudding That Took a Thousand Cooks (Viking, 1998) and The Shared Table (AGPS, 1993).

Selected bibliography

  • God Under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australian politics, ISBN 1-74114-568-6
Australian Parliamentary Library

References

  1. ↑ Australian Parliamentary Fellowship

External links


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