Marion Maddox is an Australia

Australia

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n author, academic and political commentator. She is currently Associate Professor at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion at Macquarie University

Macquarie University

Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...

. 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

God under Howard

God under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australia is a 2005 book by Marion Maddox. Maddox argues that, from 1996, John Howard's Liberal Party slowly imported US Christian Right values and that the Australian media reported little about this shift in social and public policy. Maddox...

which compared the Howard Government

John Howard

John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....

 with the religious right

Christian right

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 in the United States

United States

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 and criticised the decline of mainstream Christianity

Christianity

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 in Australia.

Maddox achieved doctorates

Doctor of Philosophy

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 in theology

Theology

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 and political philosophy

Political philosophy

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 from Flinders University

Flinders University

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 and the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

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 respectively. She is also the recipient of an Australian Parliamentary Fellowship.

Maddox was formerly at Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

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, the Universities of Adelaide

University of Adelaide

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 and South Australia

University of South Australia

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,

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

• For God and Country: Religious Dynamics in Australian Federal Politics, Monograph 07, 2001-02 (excerpt)
• Indigenous Religion in Secular Australia, Research Paper 11, 1999-2000
• Does a Preamble Need a God?, Research Paper 8, 1999-2000

External links

• Dr Marion Maddox, Religious Studies programme, Victoria University of Wellington
• Book review: God under Howard, The Age, 26 February 2005
• Fading religion fanning fundamentalism, author finds report in the Sydney Morning Herald
• Book review: God under Howard by Bill Muehlenberg - in "On Line Opinion", posted Wednesday, 23 March 2005
• Book review: God 'under' Howard - a different perspective by Gavin Mooney - in "Online Opinion", posted Wednesday, 6 April 2005