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For the Austrian-born soil scientist with a similar name and era, see Ana Maria Primavesi.
Anne Primavesi
Born
Anne Sheridan

1934
Dublin
Died4 May 2019
OccupationCatholic theologian
Websitehttp://primavesi.org

Anne Primavesi (1934 – 4 May 2019), born Anne Sheridan, was an Irish Catholic theologian, with a focus on ecological and feminist theology.

Early life and education

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Sheridan was born in Dublin. She graduated from University of London and from Heythrop College, University of London.[1]

Career

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From 1990 Primavesi was a founding member of the European Society of Women in Theological Research (ESWTR). She presented her ecological ideas at the World Council of Churches, with the 1992 Earth Summit. She wrote a trilogy on James Lovelock's Gaia philosophy.[1][2] She became a Research Fellow at University of Bristol, where she offered a course in environmental theology. In 1997 she moved to the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion at Birkbeck, University of London. In 2002 she became a Fellow of the Jesus Seminar and Westar Institute at Willamette University.[3]

Primavesi traveled widely as a lecturer. She spoke to a student group in Toronto in 1992.[4] She was a featured speaker at a Westar Institute event in California in 2004.[5]

Personal life

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Sheridan married Mark Primavesi. She died in 2019, in her eighties.[1]

Works

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Books

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  • Primavesi, Anne; Henderson, Jennifer (1989). Our God has no favourites: a liberation theology of the Eucharist. Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates [u.a.] ISBN 978-0-89390-165-3.
  • Primavesi, Anne (31 December 1990). From Apocalypse to Genesis. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8006-2522-1. [6][7][8]
  • Primavesi, Anne (11 September 2002). Sacred Gaia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-93303-5.[9]
  • Primavesi, Anne (1 March 2004). Gaia's Gift. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-44265-2. [10]
  • Primavesi, Anne (2004). Making God Laugh. Santa Rosa, Calif: Polebridge Press. ISBN 978-0-944344-69-9.
  • Primavesi, Anne (2009). Gaia and Climate Change. London; New York: Taylor & Francis US. ISBN 978-0-415-47158-9. OCLC 212908717. [11]
  • Primavesi, Anne (2011). Cultivating Unity Within the Biodiversity of God. Polebridge Press. ISBN 978-1-59815-031-5.
  • Primavesi, Anne (28 August 2014). Exploring Earthiness. Cambridge, U.K: Lutterworth Press. ISBN 978-0-7188-4224-6.

Articles, essays, and chapters

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  • "Reviewing and Realising" (1981)[12]
  • "The Witness of the Holy Spirit" (1989, with Jennifer Henderson)[13]
  • "The Part for the Whole? An Ecofeminist Inquiry" (1990)[14]
  • "The God of Altar and the God of Earth" (1991)[15]
  • "The Recovery of Wisdom: Gaia Theory and Environmental Policy" (2004)[16]
  • "Transforming the Theological Climate in Response to Climate Change: Jesus and the Mystery of Giving" (2009)[17]
  • "What's in a Name? Gaia and the Reality of Being Alive in a Relational World" (2010)[18]
  • "What Does it Mean to be Human Today?" (2012)[19]
  • "Theology and Earth System Science" (2019)[20]
  • "The Preoriginal Gift — And Our Response to It" (2020, published posthumously) [21]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Stuart, Gabrielle (4 October 2019). "In Memory of Anne Primavesi – Eco-Congregation Ireland". Eco-Congregation Ireland. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
  2. ^ Deane-Drummond, Celia (9 May 2016), "Biology and Theology: Contemporary Issues", Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.28, ISBN 978-0-19-934037-8, retrieved 30 November 2024
  3. ^ "Anne Primavesi". Center for Humans & Nature. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
  4. ^ "Community Calendar". The Toronto Star. 17 October 1992. p. 173. Retrieved 15 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Irish scholar to address religion & ecology at Westar Institute's fall 2004 meeting". Sonoma West Times and News. 30 September 2004. p. 6. Retrieved 15 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ French, William C. (1993). "From Apocalypse to Genesis: Ecology, Feminism and Christianity . Anne Primavesi". The Journal of Religion. 73 (3): 435–436. doi:10.1086/489220. ISSN 0022-4189.
  7. ^ Palmer, Clare (1992). "Reviewed Work: From Apocalypse to Genesis. Ecology, Feminism and Christianity Anne Primavesi". The Journal of Theological Studies. 43 (2). Oxford University Press: 794–797. doi:10.1093/jts/43.2.794. ISSN 0022-5185. JSTOR 23963991. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
  8. ^ Linzey, Andrew (1992). "From Apocalypse to Genesis: Ecology, Feminism and Christianity. By Anne Primavesi. Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 324. No price". Scottish Journal of Theology. 45 (2): 265–268. doi:10.1017/S0036930600038758. ISSN 0036-9306.
  9. ^ Gushee, David P.; Lutz, Alexander John Paul (13 July 2023). "Reversing the Rain of Death That Threatens Us All: On the Christian Ethical Meanings of Species Loss". Journal of Reformed Theology. 17 (2): 125–148. doi:10.1163/15697312-01702002. ISSN 1569-7312.
  10. ^ Eaton, Heather (24 February 2005). "Anne Primavesi, Gaia's Gift: Earth, Ourselves and God After Copernicus". Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture: 122–124. doi:10.1558/ecotheology.v10i1.122. ISSN 1749-4915.
  11. ^ Leduc, Timothy B. (2009). "Anne Primavesi: 2009, Gaia and climate change: a theology of gift events: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York, 154 pp". Climatic Change. 95 (1–2): 289–295. doi:10.1007/s10584-009-9608-0. ISSN 0165-0009.
  12. ^ Primavesi, Anne (May 1981). "Reviewing and Realising". New Blackfriars. 62 (731): 214–217. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2005.1981.tb02508.x. ISSN 0028-4289.
  13. ^ Primavesi, Anne; Henderson, Jennifer (July 1989). "The Witness of the Holy Spirit". The Ecumenical Review. 41 (3): 426–435. doi:10.1111/j.1758-6623.1989.tb02595.x. ISSN 0013-0796.
  14. ^ Primavesi, Anne (1 September 1990). "The Part for the Whole?: An Ecofeminist Enquiry*". Theology. 93 (755): 355–362. doi:10.1177/0040571X9009300503. ISSN 0040-571X.
  15. ^ Primavesi, Anne (27 July 1991). "The God of Altar and the God of Earth". The Independent. p. 13. Retrieved 15 April 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Primavesi, Anne. "The recovery of wisdom: Gaia theory and environmental policy." In Spirit of the Environment, pp. 69-80. Routledge, 2004.
  17. ^ Primavesi, Anne. "Transforming the Theological Climate in Response to Climate Change: Jesus and the Mystery of Giving." Nature, Space and the Sacred: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. S. Bergmann, PM Scott, MJ Samuelsson and H. Bedford-Strohm., Eds., Farnham, Ashgate Publishing Ltd: pp19-30 (2009).
  18. ^ Gerten, Dieter (2010). Religion and Dangerous Environmental Change: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on the Ethics of Climate and Sustainability. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-10093-1.
  19. ^ Primavesi, Anne (2 July 2012). "What Does it Mean to be Human Today?". Center for Humans & Nature. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
  20. ^ Primavesi, Anne. "Theology and earth system science." In Challenging Women's Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith, pp. 21-34. Routledge, 2019.
  21. ^ Primavesi, Anne (31 December 2020), Kearns, Laurel; Keller, Catherine (eds.), "The Preoriginal Gift—and Our Response to It", Ecospirit, Fordham University Press, pp. 217–232, doi:10.1515/9780823237593-012, ISBN 978-0-8232-3759-3, retrieved 15 April 2025
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